Essays by some of the world's leading scholars of religion and globalization explore the difficulties and possibilities of a diversity of religious groups occupying the same civil society.

Mark Juergensmeyer is professor of sociology and director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author or co-author of twenty books, including Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence and Religion in Global Civil Society.