Indhold: Globalization as a problem. The cultural turn. Mapping the global condition. World-systems theory, culture and images of world order. Japanese globality and Japanese religion. The universalism-particularism issue. 'Civilization,' civility and the civilizing process. Globalization theory and civilization analysis. Globality, modernity and the issue of postmodernity. Globalization and the nostalgic paradigm. 'The search for fundamentals' in global perspective