This book increases our understanding of the increasingly significant role spiritual beliefs performs in the ongoing construction of today's globe.During the 1980's, spiritual customs all around the globe, from Islamic fundamentalism to Catholic freedom theology, began making their way, often powerfully, out of the personal area and into community lifestyle, causing the "deprivatization" of faith in contemporary lifestyle. No longer content merely to manage pastoral care to individual spirits, spiritual institutions are challenging prominent political and social forces, increasing questions about the claims of organizations such as countries and markets to be "value neutral", and stressing the traditional relationships of community and personal values.