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More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts. Integral to both globalization and religions are compelling, overlapping, and sometimes competing visions of what it means to live well. In this perceptive, deeply personal, and beautifully written book, a leading theologian sheds light on how religions and globalization have historically interacted and argues for what their relationship ought to be. Recounting how these twinned forces have intersected in his own life, he shows how world religions, despite their malfunctions, remain one of our most potent sources of moral motivation and contain within them profoundly evocative accounts of human flourishing. Globalization should be judged by how well it serves us for living out our authentic humanity as envisioned within these traditions. Through renewal and reform, religions might, in turn, shape globalization so that it can be about more than bread alone.

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Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School and the founding director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. His books include Allah; Free of Charge, which was the Archbishop of Canterbury Lenten book for 2006; Exclusion and Embrace, a winner of the 2002 Grawemeyer Award; and After Our Likeness, winner of the Christianity Today Book Award. A native of Croatia, Miroslav regularly teaches and lectures in Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, and across North America. Tom Perkins, an award-winning audio engineer for over forty years, has expanded his skills to narrating and has earned an AudioFile Earphones Award. He learned by working with the world's best voice talent during his career, and he continues to engineer a variety of projects.

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