Place of Publication | Berkeley, USA : |
Publisher's Name | University of California Press, |
Date of Publication | 1998 |
Extent | xvi, 264p. |
Other Details | indexes, notes |
Series Responsibility - Personal | Juergensmeyer, Mark (editor) |
Series Statement Title | Comparative Studies in Religion and Society |
Series Volume or Part | 9 |
Item Descriptor | Offering an important and disquieting analysis of this particular synthesis of religion and politics. The author sees Islamic fundamentalism as the result of Islam's confrontation with modernity and not only--as it is widely believed--economic adversity. The movement is unprecedented in Islamic history and parallels the inability of Islamic nation-states to integrate into the new world secular order |
Formatted Content Note | Sections include - The context - globalization, fragmentation, and disorder; The study of Islamic fundamentalism and the scope of the inquiry; World order and the legacy of Saddam Hussein; The sociocultural background and the exposure to cultural modernity; Cultural fragmentation, the decline in consensus, and the diffusion of power in world politics; The crisis of the nation-state - Islamic, pan-Arab, ethnic, and sectarian identities in conflict; The fundamentalist ideology - context and the textual sources; The idea of an Islamic state and the call for the implementation of the Shari'a/divine law; Democracy and democratization in Islam - an alternative to fundamentalism; and Human rights in Islam and the west - crosscultural foundations of shared values
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Level Content-Audience | Undergraduate |
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Subject Entry | Fundamentalism Islam and politics Islamic fundamentalism Islam in the 20th century |
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