Leah Kalmanson is assistant professor of philosophy and religion at Drake University.
James Mark Shields is associate professor of comparative humanities and Asian thought at Bucknell University and Japan Foundation visiting research fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays highlights the relevance of Buddhist doctrine and practice to issues of globalization. From philosophical, religious, historical, and political perspectives, the authors show that Buddhism-arguably the world's first transnational religion-is a rich resource for navigating todays interconnected world.

Introduction, James Mark Shields and Leah Kalmanson
Part I: Globalization as Spatial, Cultural, and Economic Deterritorialization
1) Squaring Freedom with Equity: Challenging the Karma of the Globalization of Choice, Peter D. Hershock
2) Alice Walker, the Grand Mother, and a Buddhist-Womanist Response to Globalization, Carolyn M. Jones Medine
3) Religious Change as Glocalization: The Case of Shin Buddhism in Honolulu, Ugo Dessì
4) From Topos to Utopia: Critical Buddhism, Globalization, and Ideology Criticism, James Mark Shields
Part II: Normative Responses to Globalization
5) An Inexhaustible Storehouse for an Insurmountable Debt: A Buddhist Reading of Reparations, Leah Kalmanson
6) Engaged Buddhism and Liberation Theologies: Fierce Compassion as a Mode of Justice, Melanie L. Harris
7) World, Nothing, and Globalization in Nishida and Nancy, John W. M. Krummel
8) A Zen Master Meets Contemporary Feminism: Reading D¿gen as a Resource for Feminist Philosophy, Erin McCarthy