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The religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, & Islam are all today undergoing a transformation known generically as "fundamentalist." Focus here is on two aspects of the globalism of fundamentalist movements: their transnational reach & the role played by globalism in their imaginary projections across time & space. Also explained are the movements' approaches to popular cultural traditions & to religious & sacred texts. Discussed in conclusion are both their modernity &, through an account of their treatment of sexuality, the quasi-ethnic character of the multiple strategies of boundary maintenance that set them apart from other bearers of their own traditions & from the outside world generally. Adapted from the source document.

This Element discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 CE. It deviates from standard approaches that credit urbanism and state in Africa to non-African agents. East Africa, then and now, was part of the broader world of the Indian Ocean. Globalism coincided with the political and economic transformations that occurred during the Tang-Sung-Yuan-Ming and Islamic Dynastic times, 600-1500 CE. Positioned as the gateway into and out of eastern Africa, the Swahili coast became a site through which people, inventions, and innovations bi-directionally migrated, were adopted, and evolved. Swahili peoples' agency and unique characteristics cannot be seen only through Islam's prism. Instead, their unique character is a consequence of social and economic interactions of actors along the coast, inland, and beyond the Indian Ocean.

The world currently witnesing both globalization and globalism. Globalization manifests in economic, political and cultural domain, provides prescriptive judgement on what to do and not to do. Praxis of neoliberal globalism is problematic because what readily avaiable is prescription rather than philosopical refferent. The world has increasingly more integrated, and nation state has been obsolete not because of the truth, but rather the prescriptive nature of the ideology.