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Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence
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By examining acts of religious terrorism that have occurred in the late twentieth century--in Jerusalem, Tokyo, Oklahoma City--Juergensmeyer's comparative study seeks to understand the cultural breeding ground for religious extremism and violence.
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Songs of the Saints of India
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John Stratton Hawley (Photographer), Mark Juergensmeyer (Photographer)
'We have waited long for an anthology of Hindi bhakti of this range, authority, and literary excellence.' - A K Ramanujan. 'The author's deep knowledge of the bhakti traditions of north India is evident both in their choice of representative poetry for each of the six saints and in the renderings of their poetry, which are so skilfully fashioned ...
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The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State
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Will the religious confrontations with secular authorities around the world lead to a new Cold War? Mark Juergensmeyer paints a provocative picture of the new religious revolutionaries altering the political landscape in the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe. Impassioned Muslim leaders in Egypt, Palestine and Algeria, political rabbis in Israel ...
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Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution
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Mark Juergensmeyer, professor of sociology at UC Santa Barbara, presents a discussion of the possibilities of peaceful conflict resolution by calling on the teachings of Gandhi. Juergensmeyer leads readers through a practical program which will prove useful in every situation, large and small, in which people disagree. He discusses the reasons ...
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Comparative Studies in Religion and Society
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Mark Jeurgensmeyer, Mark Juergensmeyer
By examining acts of religious terrorism that have occurred in the late twentieth century--in Jerusalem, Tokyo, Oklahoma City--Juergensmeyer's comparative study seeks to understand the cultural breeding ground for religious extremism and violence.
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Radhasoami Reality: The Logic of a Modern Faith
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Radhasoami Reality explores the emergence of a new religious tradition that is expandiong rapidly across North India and throughout the world. Mark Juergensmeyer seeks to explain why the religious logic of Radhasoami, which is based on the teachings of medieval Hindu saints, is so compelling to today's society.
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Global Religions: An Introduction
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Mark Juergensmeyer (Editor)
Can Islam be located on a map? Is Europe the center of the Christian world? Is India a Hindu nation? While decades ago these questions were often answered in the affirmative, the truth has never been that simple. Not only are adherents of particular faiths spread across the globe, but there are many variations of a particular faith practiced side ...
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A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics
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John B Carman, Mark Jurgensmeyer, Mark Juergensmeyer (Editor)
This bibliography is the culmination of four years' work by a team of noted scholars; its annotated entries are organised by religious tradition and cover each tradition's central concepts, offering a judicious selection of primary and secondary works as well as recommendations of cross-cultural topics to be explored. Specialists in the history ...
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Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to Al Qaeda
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Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreaking book, "The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular ...
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Religion in Global Civil Society
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Mark Juergensmeyer
The extraordinary changes in world society at the beginning of the 21st century have involved religion to a degree that would have amazed earlier observers of modernity. Within the past decade religion has been associated with some of the world's most strident forms of political encounter, including new movements of nationalism, the clerical ...
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The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions
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Mark Juergensmeyer (Editor)
This is a reference for understanding world religious societies in their contemporary global diversity. Comprising 60 essays, the volume focuses on communities rather than beliefs, symbols, or rites. It is organized into six sections corresponding to the major living religious traditions: the Indic cultural region, the Buddhist/Confucian, the ...
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Fighting Fair: A Nonviolent Strategy for Resolving Everyday Conflicts
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Teaching the Introductory Course in Religious Studies: A Sourcebook
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Mark Juergensmeyer, Mark Juergensmeyer (Editor)
Originally Published by Scholars Press Now Available from Duke University Press "Teaching the Introductory Course in Religious Studies" is a comprehensive, hands-on guide to creating a thoughtful and effective course in world religions and introduction to religion. It contains clear and succinct essays on the different ways the course can be ...
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Religion as Social Vision: The Movement Against Untouchability in 20th-Century Punjab
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Teaching the Introductory Course in Religious Studies: A Sourcebook
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Imagining India: Essays on Indian History
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Ainslie T Embree, Mark Juergensmeyer (Editor)
The central theme of this book is how India has been viewed by outsiders, as well as how both these outsiders and the people of India have been affected by such perceptions. Professor Embree examines the complex interplay of indigenous Indian culture with two civilizations, the Islamic and the Western. His work shows with precise detail that ...
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Global Religions: An Introduction
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Robert M W Dixon, Mark Juergensmeyer (Editor)
The essays collected here provide brief and accessible introductions to the major world religions in their global contexts. The volume begins with an introduction to the globalization of religion by Mark Juergensmeyer, and is followed by individual essays on Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and local religious societies. The book ...
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Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State
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Religious Rebels in the Punjab
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The new Cold War? : religions nationalism confronts the secular state.
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Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World
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This book explores the relationship between symbolic violence and real acts of religious violence with reference to some of the most volatile religious and political conflicts in today's world. These involve the Hizbollah movement in Lebanon, the Sikhs in India, militant Jewish groups in Israel and Muslim movements from the Middle East to ...
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Terrorismo Religioso - El Auge de La Violencia Religiosa
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