Accounting for Fundamentalisms : The Dynamic Character of Movements

by edited by Martin E Marty and R. Scott Appleby

• ISBN13: 9780226508863
• ISBN10: 0226508862
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Accounting for Fundamentalismsfeatures treatments of fundamentalist movements, groups that often make headlines but are rarely understood, as part of the multivolume Fundamentalism Project. This book remains a standard reference source for comprehending the dynamics of fundamentalist movements around the world. Surveying fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, the contributors toAccounting for Fundamentalismsdescribe the organization of these movements, their leadership and recruiting techniques, and the ways in which their ideological programs and organizational structures shift over time in response to changing political and social environments.

Author Biography

Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby direct the Fundamentalism Project. Marty, the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of modern Christianity at the University of Chicago, is the senior editor of Christian Century. His many books include the multivolume Modern American Religion, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Appleby, director of Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Church and the Age Unite!: The Modernist Impulses in American Catholicism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby
Part 1 Accounting for Christian Fundamentalisms
CHAPTER 1 The Dynamics of Christian Fundamentalism: An Introduction	13	(5)
Nancy T. Ammerman
CHAPTER 2 Sources of Christian Fundamentalism in the United States	18	(39)
Robert Wuthnow and Matthew P Lawson
CHAPTER 3 Imagining the Last Days: The Politics of Apocalyptic Language	57	(22)
Susan Harding
CHAPTER 4 Refusing to Drink with the Mountains: Traditional Andean Meanings in Evangelical Practice	79	(20)
Tod D. Swanson
CHAPTER 5 "Jesus Is Lord of Guatemala": Evangelical Reform in a Death-Squad State	99	(25)
David Stoll
CHAPTER 6 Comunione e Liberazione: A Fundamentalist Idea of Power	124	(25)
Dario Zadra
CHAPTER 7 Accounting for Christian Fundamentalisms: Social Dynamics and Rhetorical Strategies	149	(24)
Nancy T. Ammerman
Part 2 Accounting for Jewish Fundamentalisms
CHAPTER 8 Quiescent and Active Fundamentalisms: The Jewish Cases	173	(24)
Samuel C. Heilman
CHAPTER 9 Migration, Acculturation, and the New Role of Texts in the Haredi World	197	(39)
Haym Soloveitchik
CHAPTER 10 By Torah Alone: Yeshiva Fundamentalism in Jewish Life	236	(28)
Charles Selengut
CHAPTER 11 The Book and the Sword: The Nationalist Yeshivot and Political Radicalism in Israel	264	(39)
Eliezer Don-Yehiya
CHAPTER 12 The Contemporary Lubavitch Hasidic Movement: Between Conservatism and Messianism	303	(25)
Aviezer Ravitzky
CHAPTER 13 Habad as Messianic Fundamentalism: From Local Particularism to Universal Jewish Mission	328	(33)
Menachem Friedman
Part 3 Accounting for Islamic Fundamentalisms
CHAPTER 14 Accounting for Islamic Fundamentalisms	361	(13)
James Piscatori
CHAPTER 15 The "Normalization" of the Islamic Movement in Egypt from the 1970's to the Early 1990's	374	(39)
Gehad Auda
CHAPTER 16 Palestinian Islamisms: Patriotism as a Condition of Their Expansion	413	(15)
Jean-François Legrain
CHAPTER 17 From Radical Mission to Equivocal Ambition: The Expansion and Manipulation of Algerian Islamism, 1979-1992	428	(62)
Hugh Roberts
CHAPTER 18 Izala: The Rise of Muslim Reformism in Northern Nigeria	490	(23)
Ousmane Kane
CHAPTER 19 Authority and Community in Soviet Islam	513	(18)
Mark Saroyan
CHAPTER 20 Two Roads to Revolutionary Shi'ite Fundamentalism in Iraq	531	(60)
Amatzia Baram	531	(60)
Part 4 Accounting for South Asian Fundamentalisms
CHAPTER 21 Accounting for Fundamentalisms in South Asia: Ideologies and Institutions in Historical Perspective	591	(26)
Robert Eric Frykenberg
CHAPTER 22 The Function of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh: To Define the Hindu Nation	617	(36)
Ainslie T. Embree
CHAPTER 23 Hindu Nationalism and the Discourse of Modernity: The Vishva Hindu Parishad	653	(16)
Peter van der Veer
CHAPTER 24 Redefining Muslim Identity in South Asia: The Transformation of the Jama'at-i-Islami	669	(37)
Rafiuddin Ahmed
CHAPTER 25 "Remaking Ourselves": Islamic Self-Fashioning in a Global Movement of Spiritual Renewal	706	(20)
Barbara D. Metcalf
CHAPTER 26 Christians and Competing Fundamentalisms in South Indian Society	726	(44)
Susan Bayly
CHAPTER 27 Organizational Weakness and the Rise of Sinhalese Buddhist Extremism	770	(15)
James Manor
Conclusion
CHAPTER 28 Movement Dynamics and Social Change: Transforming Fundamentalist Ideology and Organizations	785	(50)
Rhys H. Williams
List of Contributors	835	(4)
Index	839