Global rebellion : religious challenges to the secular state, from Christian militias to al Qaeda /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Comparative studies in religion and society ;
16. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The rise of religious rebellion
- The religious challenge to the secular state
- The loss of faith in secular nationalism
- The competition between two ideologies
- The mutual rejection of religion and secularism
- The front line of religious rebellions : the Middle East
- Egypt's origins of Muslim rebellion
- Iran's paradigmatic revolution
- Israel's militant Zionism
- Hamas : the Islamic intifada
- Insurgents in Iraq
- Other movements in the Middle East and Africa
- Political targets of rebellion : South, Central, and Southeast Asia
- Resurgent Islam in South and Central Asia
- Hindu nationalism
- Sikhism's suppressed war
- Buddhist revolts in Asia
- Religious activists in Southeast Asia
- Post-Cold War rebels : Europe, East Asia, and the United States
- The religious rejections of socialist states
- Christian and secular xenophobia in Europe
- A peaceful resolution in Northern Ireland
- Imagined armaggedon in Japan
- The militant Christian right in the United States
- Transnational networks : global Jihad
- The rise of Jihadi ideology
- Emerging networks in the Afghan-Soviet war
- Global Jihad after September 11, 2001
- The enduring problems of violence, democracy, and human rights
- Why religious confrontations are violent
- Empowering marginal peoples
- Does religion challenge democracy?
- Minority and individual human rights
- Conclusion: Religious rebellion and global war
- What does religion have to do with it?
- The future of religious rebellions.