ABSTRACT

At the turn of the third millennium, the threat of global ecological catastrophe seems probable. At the same time, a mere two decades has seen the acceleration of a process of globalization where the freedom of governments, corporations, communities and individuals for self-determination is set within shrinking constraints generated by a global liberation of finance capital. Responding to the cataclysmic collision between such universal limits of experience and such organizing powers of universal relevance constitutes the contemporary demand laid on religion, morality and truth.