Global Rebellion

by Juergensmeyer, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780520261570
• ISBN10: 0520261577
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-28
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreaking book,The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State,Mark Juergensmeyer here provides an up-to-date road map through this complex new religious terrain. Basing his discussion on interviews with militant activists and case studies of rebellious movements, Juergensmeyer puts a human face on conflicts that have become increasingly abstract. He revises our notions of religious revolution and offers positive proposals for responding to religious activism in ways that will diminish the violence and lead to an accommodation between radical religion and the secular world.

Author Biography

Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies and Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and President of the American Academy of Religion. He is author of Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution and Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, winner of the Grawemeyer Award. He is editor of the Oxford Handbook of Global Religions and coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Global Religion.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The Rise of Religious Rebellion	p. 1
The Religious Challenge to the Secular State	p. 9
The Loss of Faith in Secular Nationalism	p. 10
The Competition between Two Ideologies	p. 17
The Mutual Rejection of Religion and Secularism	p. 26
The Front Line of Religious Rebellion: The Middle East	p. 39
Egypt's Origins of Muslim Rebellion	p. 41
Iran's Paradigmatic Revolution	p. 46
Israel's Militant Zionism	p. 54
Hamas: The Islamic Intifada	p. 54
Insurgents in Iraq	p. 73
Other Movements in the Middle East and Africa	p. 77
Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan	p. 78
Gulf States	p. 79
North Africa	p. 80
Sub-Sabaran Africa	p. 82
Political Targets of Rebellion: South, Central, and Southeast Asia	p. 84
Resurgent Islam in South and Central Asia	p. 85
Afghanistan	p. 85
Pakistan	p. 88
Kashmir	p. 90
Bangladesh	p. 92
Central Asia	p. 94
Hindu Nationalism	p. 103
Sikhism's Suppressed War	p. 115
Buddhist Revolts in Asia	p. 125
Sri Lanka	p. 125
Mongolia	p. 135
Tibet	p. 144
Religious Activists in Southeast Asia	p. 145
Indonesia	p. 146
Philippines	p. 148
Post-Cold War Rebels: Europe, East Asia, and the United States	p. 151
The Religious Rejection of Socialist States	p. 152
Russia	p. 152
Eastern Europe and the Balkan States	p. 156
China, Vietnam, and North Korea	p. 163
Latin America	p. 165
Christian and Secular Xenophobia in Europe	p. 167
A Peaceful Resolution in Northern Ireland	p. 176
Imagined Armageddon in Japan	p. 178
The Militant Christian Right in the United States	p. 182
Transnational Networks: Global Jihad	p. 193
The Rise of Jihadi Ideology	p. 193
Emerging Networks in the Afghan-Soviet War	p. 197
Global jihad after September II, 2001	p. 205
The Enduring Problems of Violence, Democracy, and Human Rights	p. 212
Why Religious Confrontations Are Violent	p. 212
Empowering Marginal Peoples	p. 220
Does Religion Challenge Democracy?	p. 223
Minority and Individual Human Rights	p. 231
Conclusion: Religious Rebellion and Global War	p. 244
What Does Religion Have To Do with It?	p. 252
The Future of Religious Rebellions	p. 257
Notes	p. 264
List of Interviews	p. 314
Bibliography	p. 321
Index	p. 357
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