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New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State

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ISBN-10: 0520086511

ISBN-13: 9780520086517

Edition: 1993

Authors: Mark Juergensmeyer

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Will the religious confrontations with secular authorities around the world lead to a new Cold War? Mark Juergensmeyer paints a provocative picture of the new religious revolutionaries altering the political landscape in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Impassioned Muslim leaders in Egypt, Palestine, and Algeria, political rabbis in Israel, militant Sikhs in India, and triumphant Catholic clergy in Eastern Europe are all players in Juergensmeyer's study of the explosive growth of religious movements that decisively reject Western ideas of secular nationalism. Juergensmeyer revises our notions of religious revolutions. Instead of viewing religious nationalists…    
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Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/23/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Rise of Religious Nationalism
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?
The Global Confrontations
Models of Religious Revolution: The Middle East
The Ingredients of a Religious Revolt
Iran: The Paradigmatic Religious Revolution
Egypt's Incipient Religious Revolt
Religious Revolt in a Jewish State
The Islamic Intifada: A Revolt within the Palestinian Revolution
Political Targets of Religion: South Asia
Militant Hindu Nationalism
The Sikh War against Both Secular and Hindu Nationalism
Sri Lanka's Unfinished Religious Revolt
Religious Ambivalence toward Socialist Nationalism: Formerly Marxist States
Religious Revival in Mongolia
Islamic Nationalism in Central Asia
The Religious Rejection of Socialism in Eastern Europe
The Ambivalent Relationship of Religion and Socialism
Patterns of Religious Revolt
The Problems Ahead
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, Human Rights, and the Modern Religious State
Theocracy or Democracy?
The Protection of Minority Rights
The Protection of Individual Rights
Conclusion: Can We Live with Religious Nationalism?
Notes
Bibliography
List of Interviews
Index