ABSTRACT
The local and the global Globalization has eroded geographical and political frontiers, but it creates others that have subtle and pervasive effects on ideas and practices in religion and politics. The term "globalization" first referred to technological changes in the 1980s that made possible a nonstop market in international currency transactions. Soon the term became a powerfbl organizing metaphor for the market economy in general and for the flow of images and ideas through the world media. Some claimed that the emerging trans-state patterns of commerce, politics and cultural life were rendering traditional political and geographical notions of frontier obsolete and threatening the viability of the nation-state.
