Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World by Saha, Santosh C.;

Long description:

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. Their analysis tracks trends in religious movements that aspire to radicalize, reform, and violently topple governments and nations, while highlighting the difference between fundamentalist interpretations and other longstanding juridical, political, and intellectual traditions.

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Part 1 Approaches to Fundamentalisms
Chapter 2 Religious Fundamentalism and its ""other:"" Snapshot View from the Global Information Order
Chapter 3 Some Priority Variables in the Study of Comparative Religious Politics
Chapter 4 Fundamentalist Ideology, Institutions, and the State: A Formal Analysis
Chapter 5 Religions Between Universal and Particular: Eastern Europe After 1989
Part 6 Regional Fundamentalisms
Chapter 7 Phases of Political Islam
Chapter 8 Contesting Historiographies in South Asia: The Islamization of Pakistani Social Studies Textbooks
Chapter 9 Hindu Revivalist Cultural Policies and Programs in India: A Critique
Chapter 10 Perceiving Islam: The Cause and Consequences of Islamophobia in Western Media
Chapter 11 Democracy v. Fundamentalism: Religious Politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India
Chapter 12 Ethnicity and Religion in Israeli Politics: Emergence of the Shas Party