Deportation, surveillance, and other forms of political tensions are caused by the existence of Christian transnational religious actors in high-risk countries. Restrictions on missionaries’ religious activities indicate how the state engages with global religious actors and how political authority intersects with religious authority in the global cultural process. This project investigates and analyzes why these religious actors are viewed as threats by these states, and whether the states’ perception of threats is driven by Christian doctrine or foreign cultural habits attached to religious values.
The world polity model (Meyer et al. 1997) offers an excellent tool for explaining the association of global, national, and local actors’ construction of similar identities, structures, and behavior. However, under what conditions do local actors not conform to world culture? Some national actors are less enthusiastic about conforming to the global discourse, possibly because discussions at the global level do not apply to their idiosyncratic political, social, and cultural backgrounds. This project aims to conduct a comparative study of the dynamics of global religious movements in different cultural settings, and address this gap in the literature, explaining diversity and resistance to homogenization.
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