Discussion Questions for Session 2
 

- How do you see religion(s) being marginalized in modern
(global?) society? How do you see religions resisting?

- What is the significance of the Rushdie affair for understanding
a) the situation of Muslims in the modern world?
b) the way Muslims are seen by the rest of the world?

- What does it mean to talk about a particular culture or identity being
relativized?

- What's the motor of globalization for Wallerstein?

- What does Meyer add?

- How does Beyer compare religion and globalization in relation to ideas
of immanence and transcendence? Is it a uselful/convincing comparison?

- What would global Gemeinschaft or Gesellschaft look like?

- Which do you find most plausible?

- Do you think we are/will be all one global society in Luhmann's sense?

Voila!
See you tomorrow,
Miranda and Elisabeth.