The New Cold War?  Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society, No 5)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 23, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780520086517
Subjects: Christian theology; Nationalism; Religion: general; Religion; Politics / Current Events; History & Theory - General; Political Ideologies - Nationalism; Religion, Politics & State; Political Science / General
First sentence: In the celebrations following the first stages of elections that threatened to bring Islamic nationalists to power in Algeria early in 1992, a jubilant supporter of the Islamic Front spied a foreigner on the streets of Algiers and grabbed her by the arm.