Deep cosmopolis : rethinking world politics and globalisation / Adam K. Webb.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1: Circuits of the Sacred -- Chapter 2: Civilisation with a Capital C -- Chapter 3: Beyond the Frontiers -- Chapter 4: The World Religions -- Chapter 5: Mediæval Mirrors and the Virtuous Outsider -- Chapter 6: Strutting on the Stage of Empires -- Chapter 7: Missionaries, Mystics, and the Melding of Faiths -- Chapter 8: Modernity’s Derailments -- Chapter 9: Globalisation and New Landscapes of Power -- Chapter 10: Relearning How to Talk Across Traditions -- Chapter 11: Interreligious Dialogue and Its Limits -- Chapter 12: Homelands and Hospitality -- Chapter 13: World Citizens in the Making -- Chapter 14: Void or Cosmos?

Too often, observers of globalization take for granted that the common ground across cultures is a thin layer of consumerism and perhaps human rights. If so, then anything deeper and more traditional would be placebound, and probably destined for the dustbin of history. But must this be so? Must we assume--as both liberals and traditionalists now tend to do--that one cannot be a cosmopolitan and take traditions seriously at the same time? This book offers a radically different argument about how traditions and global citizenship can meet, and suggests some important lessons for the contours of globalization in our own time.