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, VivienneFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-12-10
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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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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