Pious Passion The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran

Name: Pious Passion The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran
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ISBN: 9780520074637

ISBN-10: 0520074637

ISBN-13: 9780520074637

Edition: 1993

Authors: Martin Riesebrodt, Don Reneau

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Martin Riesebrodt's unconventional study provides an extraordinary look at religious fundamentalism. Comparing two seemingly disparate movements--in early twentieth-century United States and 1960s and 1970s Iran--he examines why these movements arose and developed. He sees them not simply as protests against "modernity" per se, but as a social and moral community's mobilization against its own marginalization and threats to its way of life. These movements protested against the hallmarks of industrialization and sought to transmit conservative cultural models to the next generation. Fundamentalists desired a return to an "authentic" social order governed by God's law, one bound by…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/9/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface



Fundamentalism as a Sociological Problem


Fundamentalism and Sociology


Fundamentalism: A Disputed Concept


Fundamentalism: Toward Definition and Typology


Concepts and Theoretical Perspectives



Protestant Fundamentalism in the United States, 1910-1928


Ascetic Protestantism and Politics


Profile and Boundaries of the Fundamentalist Movement


The Ideology of Protestant Fundamentalism


The Carriers of Protestant Fundamentalism


The Causes of Protestant Fundamentalist Mobilization



Shiite Fundamentalism in Iran, 1961-1979


Iranian Shiism and Politics


Profile and Boundaries of the Fundamentalist Movement


The Ideology of Shiite Fundamentalism


The Carriers of Shiite Fundamentalism


The Causes of Shiite Fundamentalist Mobilization



Fundamentalism as Radical Patriarchalism


Fundamentalism as Radical Traditionalism


Basic Patterns of Fundamentalist Ideology


Basic Patterns of the Carriers of Fundamentalism


Basic Patterns of the Causes of Mobilization


Fundamentalism as Radical Patriarchalism


Notes


References


Index