Global rebellion
Subtitle: religious challenges to the secular state from Christian militias to Al Qaeda
By: Mark Juergensmeyer.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Comparative studies in religion and society
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520255548
Subjects: Religions; Radicalism -- Religious aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the revised edition; title: The rise of religious rebellion; title: Religion vs. secular nationalism; title: The loss of faith in secular nationalism; title: Faith in secular nationalism; title: The religious rejection of secular nationalism; title: Competing ideologies of order; title: Secular nationalism in the West; title: The competition between two ideologies; title: How secular nationalism failed to accommodate religion; title: Can religion accommodate the nation-state?; title: Global confrontations; title: The front lines of religious rebellions : the Middle East and North Africa Iran's paradigmatic revolution; title: Unrest in Egypt; title: Militant zionism; title: Hamas : the Islamic intifada; title: Jihadi insurgents in Iraq; title: Political targets of rebellion : South, Central, and Southeast Asia; title: Resurgent Islam in Afghanistan and South-Central Asia Hindu nationalism; title: Sikhism's suppressed war; title: Sri lankan and mongolian buddhist revolts; title: Islamic rebellion in Southeast Asia; title: Post-cold war rebels : Europe, Aast Asia, and the United States; title: Religious rejections of socialism in Russia, Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Latin America; title: Religious xenophobia in Western Europe; title: A peaceful resolution in Northern Ireland; title: Imagined armaggedon in Japan; title: Christian militia in the United States; title: Transnational networks : global Jihad; title: The rise of Jihadi ideology; title: Emerging networks in the Afghan-Soviet war; title: Global Jihad after 9/11; title: Enduring problems; title: Why religious confrontations are violent; title: The rhetoric of cosmic war; title: When cosmic war becomes real; title: Religious sanction for the use of violence; title: Empowering marginal peoples; title: Democracy and human rights; title: Theocracy or democracy?; title: The protection of minority rights; title: The protection of individual rights; title: Modernity and the religious state; title: Conclusion: Regional rebellion and global war.