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Yale's Faith And Globalization Resources
Video | Classroom discussion: Preventing Faith from being used to perpetuate inequality View
Tony Blair  | October 21, 2008
Tony Blair responds to a student who asks how you can prevent Faith from being used to perpetuate inequality when the church has a history of "standing on the side of the empire."
Video | Classroom discussion: The impact of Globalization on Faiths View
Tony Blair
Tony Blair responds to a student asking about the impact Globalization has on Faiths. If Globalization brings people together with shared commerce and shared ventures, does it also facilitate tolerance and augment religions?
Video | Classroom discussion: How do you use Faith as a force for good? View
Tony Blair
Tony Blair responds to a question from a student wondering how you can prevent people from using faith as a divisive weapon and putting it to use as a force for good.
Video | Classroom discussion: Exploring the nature of religious exclusion View
Tony Blair
Tony Blair discusses religious exclusion after a student asks how we can make people genuinely love and care about one another when they believe those outside their faith traditions are outside God's grace.
Video | Classroom discussion: Extreme secularism and religiosity View
Tony Blair
Tony Blair explains how he balances his religious views with others who hold very different beliefs regarding faith.
Video | Classroom discussion: The inevitability of Globalization View
Tony Blair
Tony Blair responds to a student asking if the process of Globalization can be slowed or even reversed if people see a rising threat in the idea of an interconnected world.
Video | Tony Blair Appears With Charlie Rose View
Tony Blair and Charlie Rose
Tony Blair sits down for a conversation with Charlie Rose to talk about his life after politics, including passion for exploring the themes of Faith and Globalization.
Video | Tony Blair and Miroslav Volf: Faith and Globalization View
Tony Blair and Miroslav Volf  | September 19, 2008
Miroslav Volf, Professor at Yale's Divinity School, and Mr. Tony Blair, Former British Prime Minister and Howland Distinguished Professor, make opening remarks to the class on Faith and Globalization.
Video | Stakes in Faith and Globalization View
Miroslav Volf  | September 6, 2008
Both "faith" and "globalization" are abstract and contested concepts. Explore what each can mean and why it matters to understanding the interaction between faith and globalization in the contemporary world.
Audio | Defining Globalization in a Changing World Listen | Download
Nayan Chanda  | September 29, 2008
Neil Arner, a doctoral student in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale, interviews Nayan Chanda, editor of YaleGlobal online magazine, on his thoughts on globalization in today's modern world and what it means with regard to Faith.
Other Yale Resources
The History of Globalization
YaleGlobal Online Magazine
Here is a collection of multimedia presentations that illustrate historical examples of how ideas and materials spread through the ancient world. By looking back we can see how similar types of melding, borrowing and adaptation of outside influences occur even today.
What is Globalization?
YaleGlobal Online Magazine
The modern word "globalization" is a relatively new term used to describe a very old human process. The desire to improve one’s life by exchanging goods and ideas has greatly increased the interconnectedness and interdependency of the world, but has also created new problems. These are the main issues that this collection of multimedia presentations seeks to address.
Globalization and the Middle East Part I
Frank Griffel
Frank Griffel, Professor of Islamic Studies at Yale, describes the tenuous relationship between forces of globalization and notions of identity in the Middle East. He notes the ways societies in the Middle East simultaneously reject and appropriate elements of global culture.
Globalization and the Middle East Part II
Frank Griffel
Frank Griffel, Professor of Islamic Studies at Yale, describes the tenuous relationship between forces of globalization and notions of identity in the Middle East. He notes the ways societies in the Middle East simultaneously reject and appropriate elements of global culture.
External Resources
Mr. Blair's Speech At Westminster Cathedral
The website for the Office of Tony Blair  | April 3, 2008
This transcript of Tony Blair's April 2008 speech at Westminster Cathedral records his words on the quickly changing global landscape, the increasing interdependency of countries in the 21st century, and the role religion will play in shaping the future.
The Globalization Website from the Emory University Sociology Department
Emory University Sociology Department
This website offers information and resources on the topic of globalization from a sociological perspective. The site includes a glossary of key terms, demographical and development data, and links to various related organizations.

 
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