Strong religion
Subtitle: the rise of fundamentalisms around the world
By: Gabriel A. Almond, R. Scott Appleby, and Emmanuel Sivan.
Contributors: Appleby, R. Scott, 1956-; Sivan, Emmanuel.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Fundamentalism.
Description: Examines a variety of antimodernist, antisecular militant religious movements on five continents and within seven world religious traditions, analyzing the social structures, cultural contexts and political ramifications of fundamentalism around the world.
Table of contents: title: The enclave culture; title: Fundamentalism : genus and species; title: Explaining fundamentalisms : structure, chance, and choice; title: Wrestling with the world : movements as emergent systems; title: Testing the model : politics, ethnicity, and fundamentalist strategies; title: The prospects of fundamentalism.