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. |
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Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State Mark Juergensmeyer. 1 THE NEW COLD WAR ? One 2 . Comparative Studies.
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... Secular Nationalism Faith in Secular Nationalism The Religious Rejection of Secular Nationalism 2. Competing Ideologies of Order ix xiii 1 11 15 18 26 Secular Nationalism in the West 26 The Competition between Two Ideologies 30 How Secular ...
... Secular Nationalism Faith in Secular Nationalism The Religious Rejection of Secular Nationalism 2. Competing Ideologies of Order ix xiii 1 11 15 18 26 Secular Nationalism in the West 26 The Competition between Two Ideologies 30 How Secular ...
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Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State Mark Juergensmeyer. Preface to the Paperback Edition Religious nationalism ... nationalism ; the Sikh revolution in the Punjab and the incipient Muslim government in Tajikistan were quelled ...
Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State Mark Juergensmeyer. Preface to the Paperback Edition Religious nationalism ... nationalism ; the Sikh revolution in the Punjab and the incipient Muslim government in Tajikistan were quelled ...
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Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State Mark Juergensmeyer. gence of parochial identities based on ethnic and religious alle- giances . Although Francis Fukuyama ... secular nationalism failed to inspire them ? Why 2 Introduction.
Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State Mark Juergensmeyer. gence of parochial identities based on ethnic and religious alle- giances . Although Francis Fukuyama ... secular nationalism failed to inspire them ? Why 2 Introduction.
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Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State Mark Juergensmeyer. Why has secular nationalism failed to inspire them ? Why has religion been raised as an alternative ? Why has the religious rejec- tion of secular nationalism been so ...
Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State Mark Juergensmeyer. Why has secular nationalism failed to inspire them ? Why has religion been raised as an alternative ? Why has the religious rejec- tion of secular nationalism been so ...
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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