Transnational communicative networks of religious ideologies

Authors

  • Elena Alexandrovna OSTROVSKAYA Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет , Saint-Petersburg State University Автор

Keywords:

ethnic religious minorities, transnational networks, non-governmental organizations, politically disputed identity

Abstract

Within the international context we witness that provocation of local ethnic religious conflicts becomes a new way of unfolding the geopolitical rivalry and with transnational communicative networks of religious ideologies acting as its instrument. The author introduces the sociological concept of “transnational communicative networks of religious ideologies” and offers a thorough analysis of the role of ethnic religious transnational communicative in the subject-matter presentation considering global conflicts. Applied possibilities of this concept are vividly demonstrated when analyzing the transnational communicative networks in the Tibetan Buddhism

Published

2010-07-15

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