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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... leaders in various parts of the world . Some I inter- viewed in person ; others I encountered through their published interviews , transcripts of their speeches , and their writings . I have tried to make sense of their positions ...
... leaders in various parts of the world . Some I inter- viewed in person ; others I encountered through their published interviews , transcripts of their speeches , and their writings . I have tried to make sense of their positions ...
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... leaders ' most formidable foes . It would be easy to characterize these religious activists as funda- mentalists , but I hesitate to do so for several reasons . First , the term is pejorative . It refers , as one Muslim scholar observed ...
... leaders ' most formidable foes . It would be easy to characterize these religious activists as funda- mentalists , but I hesitate to do so for several reasons . First , the term is pejorative . It refers , as one Muslim scholar observed ...
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... leadership ahead of traditional ethnic and religious leaders . But secularism was more than just a political issue , it was also a matter of personal identity . A new kind of person had come into existence — the " Indian nationalist ...
... leadership ahead of traditional ethnic and religious leaders . But secularism was more than just a political issue , it was also a matter of personal identity . A new kind of person had come into existence — the " Indian nationalist ...
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... Leaders of minority religious communities — such as Hindu Tamils in Ceylon and Coptic Christians in Egypt — seemed espe- cially eager to embrace secular nationalism because a secular nation - state would assure that the public life of ...
... Leaders of minority religious communities — such as Hindu Tamils in Ceylon and Coptic Christians in Egypt — seemed espe- cially eager to embrace secular nationalism because a secular nation - state would assure that the public life of ...
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... leadership of that community . The rise of secular nationalism in world history , as Benedict Anderson ob- serves , has ... leaders of new nations who may have genuinely believed in the idea of secular nationalism but who also found it ...
... leadership of that community . The rise of secular nationalism in world history , as Benedict Anderson ob- serves , has ... leaders of new nations who may have genuinely believed in the idea of secular nationalism but who also found it ...
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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