Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World Critical Social and Political Issues

by Saha, Santosh C.; Abadi, Jacob; Agadjanian, Alexander; Husain, Zohair; Jelen, Ted G.; Land, Graeme Suart; Rosenbaum, David; Rosser, Yvette Claire; Sinha, Dipankar; Sonn, Tamara; Tummala, Krishna K.; Wee, Vivienne

• ISBN13: 9780739107607
• ISBN10: 0739107607
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-10
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Today new and ever more pernicious forms of terrorist violence threaten the world. Because these new forms of violence are so often linked to religious radicalism, modern terrorism has challenged the secular ethics of contemporary civil society. There is a pressing need to understand modern religious movements that have added militancy and belligerence as fundamental elements of religious practice. Contributors to this volume painstakingly tackle the question of how to define the contours of current religious fundamentalism as they examine the private and public postures of fundamentalist rhetoric, the importance of its regional variants, and the damage it can do to regional and national education systems.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Approaches to Fundamentalisms
Religious Fundamentalism and Its "Other": Snapshot View from the Global Information Order	p. 9
Some Priority Variables in the Study of Comparative Religious Politics	p. 29
Fundamentalist Ideology, Institutions, and the State: A Formal Analysis	p. 47
Religion between Universal and Particular: Eastern Europe after 1989	p. 71
Regional Fundamentalisms
Phases of Political Islam	p. 93
Hindu Revivalist Cultural Policies and Programs in India: A Critique	p. 127
Perceiving Islam: The Cause and Consequences of Islamophobia in Western Media	p. 171
Democracy vs. Fundamentalism: Religious Politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India	p. 207
Ethnicity and Religion in Israeli Politics: Emergence of the Shas Party	p. 235
Contesting Historiographies in South Asia: The Islamization of Pakistani Social Studies Textbooks	p. 265
Bibliography	p. 309
Index	p. 325
About the Contributors	p. 337
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