The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular StateWill 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 as wild-eyed, anti-American fanatics, he reveals them as modern activists pursuing a legitimate form of politics. He explores the positive role religion can play in the political life of modern nations, even while acknowledging some religious nationalists' proclivity to violence and disregard of Western notions of human rights. Finally, he situates the growth of religious nationalism in the context of the political malaise of the modern West. Noting that the synthesis of traditional religion and secular nationalism yields a religious version of the modern nation-state, Juergensmeyer claims that such a political entity could conceivably embrace democratic values and human rights. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994. 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, Centr |
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... attempts to give their ideologies an antireligious or a suprareligious force were encouraged , perhaps unwittingly , by their Western mentors . The words used to define nationalism by Western political leaders and such scholars as Kohn ...
... attempts to give their ideologies an antireligious or a suprareligious force were encouraged , perhaps unwittingly , by their Western mentors . The words used to define nationalism by Western political leaders and such scholars as Kohn ...
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... attempts to capitalize on Westomania , he maintained , have come from the insidious efforts of Western imperialists . 35 The goal of the Islamic revolution in Iran , then , was not only to free Iranians politically from the shah but ...
... attempts to capitalize on Westomania , he maintained , have come from the insidious efforts of Western imperialists . 35 The goal of the Islamic revolution in Iran , then , was not only to free Iranians politically from the shah but ...
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... attempted to rid their societies of what they regard as the corrosive influence of Western secular institutions . Some religious revolutionaries — although certainly not all of them - deny the possibility that secular institutions can ...
... attempted to rid their societies of what they regard as the corrosive influence of Western secular institutions . Some religious revolutionaries — although certainly not all of them - deny the possibility that secular institutions can ...
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... politicians who attempted to cloak themselves in Buddhist rhetoric . " They are the enemy of Buddhism , " he said . 46 Secular nationalists within Third World countries are thought to be Loss of Faith in Secular Nationalism 21.
... politicians who attempted to cloak themselves in Buddhist rhetoric . " They are the enemy of Buddhism , " he said . 46 Secular nationalists within Third World countries are thought to be Loss of Faith in Secular Nationalism 21.
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... attempting to build a science of ideas based on the theories of Francis Bacon , Thomas Hobbes , John Locke , and Rene Descartes that would be sufficiently comprehensive to replace religion . According to one of the ideologues , Destutt ...
... attempting to build a science of ideas based on the theories of Francis Bacon , Thomas Hobbes , John Locke , and Rene Descartes that would be sufficiently comprehensive to replace religion . According to one of the ideologues , Destutt ...
Contents
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The Global Confrontations | 43 |
The Religious Rejection of Socialism in Eastern Europe | 133 |
The Ambivalent Relationship of Religion and Socialism | 141 |
Patterns of Religious Revolt | 145 |
The Problems Ahead | 151 |
Why Religious Confrontations Are Violent | 153 |
The Rhetoric of Cosmic War | 156 |
When Cosmic War Becomes Real | 160 |
Religious Sanction for the Use of Violence | 163 |
Models of Religious Revolution The Middle East | 45 |
The Paradigmatic Religious Revolution | 50 |
Egypts Incipient Religious Revolt | 57 |
Religious Revolt in a Jewish State | 62 |
A Revolt within the Palestinian Revolution | 69 |
Political Targets of Religion South Asia | 78 |
Militant Hindu Nationalism | 81 |
The Sikh War against Both Secular and Hindu Nationalism | 90 |
Sri Lankas Unfinished Religious Revolt | 99 |
Religious Ambivalence toward Socialist Nationalism Formerly Marxist States | 110 |
Religious Revival in Mongolia | 115 |
Islamic Nationalism in Central Asia | 124 |
Empowering Marginal Peoples | 167 |
Democracy Human Rights and the Modern Religious State | 171 |
Theocracy or Democracy? | 173 |
The Protection of Minority Rights | 178 |
The Protection of Individual Rights | 186 |
Modernity and the Religious State | 189 |
Can We Live with Religious Nationalism? | 193 |
Notes | 203 |
Bibliography | 249 |
List of Interviews | 277 |
Index | 283 |
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