Format:
XII, 370 S
,
24 cm
Edition:
[Rev. ed.]
ISBN:
9780520261570
,
9780520255548
Series Statement:
Comparative studies in religion and society 16
Content:
Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreaking book, The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State, Mark Juergensmeyer here provides an up-to-date road map through this complex new religious terrain. Basing his discussion on interviews with militant activists and case studies of rebellious movements, Juergensmeyer puts a human face on conflicts that have become increasingly abstract. He revises our notions of religious revolution and offers positive proposals for responding to religious activism in ways that will diminish the violence and lead to an accommodation between radical religion and the secular world
Content:
Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreaking book, The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State, Mark Juergensmeyer here provides an up-to-date road map through this complex new religious terrain. Basing his discussion on interviews with militant activists and case studies of rebellious movements, Juergensmeyer puts a human face on conflicts that have become increasingly abstract. He revises our notions of religious revolution and offers positive proposals for responding to religious activism in ways that will diminish the violence and lead to an accommodation between radical religion and the secular world
Note:
Rev., upd., and expanded version of a work originally publ. as "The new cold war? : Religious nationalism confronts the secular state" (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993)
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Introduction: The rise of religious rebellion -- The religious challenge to the secular state -- The loss of faith in secular nationalism -- The competition between two ideologies -- The mutual rejection of religion and secularism -- The front line of religious rebellions : the Middle East -- Egypt's origins of Muslim rebellion -- Iran's paradigmatic revolution -- Israel's militant Zionism -- Hamas : the Islamic intifada -- Insurgents in Iraq -- Other movements in the Middle East and Africa -- Political targets of rebellion : South, Central, and Southeast Asia -- Resurgent Islam in South and Central Asia -- Hindu nationalism -- Sikhism's suppressed war -- Buddhist revolts in Asia -- Religious activists in Southeast Asia -- Post-Cold War rebels : Europe, East Asia, and the United States -- The religious rejections of socialist states -- Christian and secular xenophobia in Europe -- A peaceful resolution in Northern Ireland -- Imagined armaggedon in Japan -- The militant Christian right in the United States -- Transnational networks : global Jihad -- The rise of Jihadi ideology -- Emerging networks in the Afghan-Soviet war -- Global Jihad after September 11, 2001 -- The enduring problems of violence, democracy, and human rights -- Why religious confrontations are violent -- Empowering marginal peoples -- Does religion challenge democracy? -- Minority and individual human rights -- Conclusion: Religious rebellion and global war -- What does religion have to do with it? -- The future of religious rebellions.
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Introduction to the revised edition -- The rise of religious rebellion -- Religion vs. secular nationalism -- The loss of faith in secular nationalism -- Faith in secular nationalism -- The religious rejection of secular nationalism -- Competing ideologies of order -- Secular nationalism in the West -- The competition between two ideologies -- How secular nationalism failed to accommodate religion -- Can religion accommodate the nation-state? -- Global confrontations -- The front lines of religious rebellions : the Middle East and North Africa Iran's paradigmatic revolution -- Unrest in Egypt -- Militant zionism -- Hamas : the Islamic intifada -- Jihadi insurgents in Iraq -- Political targets of rebellion : South, Central, and Southeast Asia -- Resurgent Islam in Afghanistan and South-Central Asia Hindu nationalism -- Sikhism's suppressed war -- Sri lankan and mongolian buddhist revolts -- Islamic rebellion in Southeast Asia -- Post-cold war rebels : Europe, Aast Asia, and the United States -- Religious rejections of socialism in Russia, Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Latin America -- Religious xenophobia in Western Europe -- A peaceful resolution in Northern Ireland -- Imagined armaggedon in Japan -- Christian militia in the United States -- Transnational networks : global Jihad -- The rise of Jihadi ideology -- Emerging networks in the Afghan-Soviet war -- Global Jihad after 9/11 -- Enduring problems -- Why religious confrontations are violent -- The rhetoric of cosmic war -- When cosmic war becomes real -- Religious sanction for the use of violence -- Empowering marginal peoples -- Democracy and human rights -- Theocracy or democracy? -- The protection of minority rights -- The protection of individual rights -- Modernity and the religious state -- Conclusion: Regional rebellion and global war
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520934764
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Säkularismus
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Religion
;
Radikalismus
;
Fundamentalismus
;
Gewalttätigkeit
;
Religionsvergleich
Author information:
Juergensmeyer, Mark 1940-
