Peter Beyer and Lori Beaman are professors of religious studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Religion, Globalization, and Culture is an edited collection of 28 articles on religion in a globalizing world and its contributors include many of the most well-known sociologists of religion of our times. The book portrays a myriad of perspectives of how to understand and analyze religious life beyond the nation-state and on a global scale. The volume is divided into four parts: theoretical perspectives, religious institutions and globalization, key issues in the relation of culture, globalization and culture, and regional particularizations. The book is volume six of the International Studies in Religion and Society series by Brill.

Book review: Peter Beyer & Lori Beaman (eds.): Religion, Globalization, and Culture. Leiden: Brill, 2007, 608 pp.