Subject(s): Social history -- Civilization -- Globalization -- Orientalism -- Religion and Lae -- Global cities -- Global Health -- Occidental reason, Orientalism, Islamic fundamentalism, Global society, Historical position of Latin America -- Religion and globalisation : Privatization and public influence of religion in global society, law, global order, Globalizing Catholicism, global fundamentalism -- Nature and the environment : Environmental degradation and Ulrich beck's risk society , Ecocultures, ecology, global environmental values and local contexts of action, science, nature and globalization of the environment -- Global cities : Telecommunications and planetary urban networks, cities and citizenship, globalizing cities -- Global health : Social development since Alma Ata, HIV/AIDS, Globalization and its discontents