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