Required Readings Fall 2007:
1) Stackhouse, Max, editor, "God and Globalization Vol. I", pages 25-104 (Trinity
Press, 2000).
2) Stackhouse, Max, editor, "God and Globalization Vol. 3", pages 59-138 (Trinity
Press, 2002).
3) Diamond, Jared, "Collapse", pages 419-525 (Viking, 2005).
4) Homer-Dixon, Thomas, "The Upside of Down", pages 9-30, 177-234 (Island
Press, 2006).
5) Stiglitz, Joseph, "Making Globalization Work", pages 3-24, 269-292 (W.W.
Norton & Company, 2006).
6) Friedman, Thomas, "The World Is Flat", pages 225-336, (Farrar, Straus, 2005).
7) Kennedy, Paul, "Preparing for the Twenty First Century", pages 163 - 227
(Random House, 1993).
Supplemental Reading: (further portions of any of these seven required texts)
The first two texts introduce brief theological insights into Globalization from five
theologians. The next five texts approach Globalization respectively from the perspective
of a natural scientist, a political scientist, an economist, a journalist and then a historian.
The complete reading list was available at the s_2007 meeting. Contact Jim Sherbloom for booklet of readings.