The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State by Mark Jue

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Paints a picture of the religious revolutionaries altering the political landscape in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. This title situates the growth of religious nationalism in the context of the political malaise of the modern West.

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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, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Impassioned Muslim leaders in Egypt, Palestine, and Algeria, political rabbis in Israel, militant Sikhs in India, and triumphant Catholic clergy in Eastern Europe are all players in Juergensmeyer's study of the explosive growth of religious movements that decisively reject Western ideas of secular nationalism.Juergensmeyer revises our notions of religious revolutions. Instead of viewing religious nationalists as wild-eyed, anti-American fanatics, he reveals them as modern activists pursuing a legitimate form of politics. He explores the positive role religion can play in the political life of modern nations, even while acknowledging some religious nationalists' proclivity to violence and disregard of Western notions of human rights. Finally, he situates the growth of religious nationalism in the context of the political malaise of the modern West. Noting that the synthesis of traditional religion and secular nationalism yields a religious version of the modern nation-state, Juergensmeyer claims that such a political entity could conceivably embrace democratic values and human rights.

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"This is an indispensable book in helping us understand the new world disorder that seems to be overtaking us. Juergensmeyer points out that much of the world neither understands nor finds attractive the idea of a 'secular state.' He helps us see that religious nationalism is a fact of life that will be with us for a long time to come. Deconstructing any simple notion of 'fundamentalism,' he shows us how it is possible to live with religious nationalism constructively without demonizing it. That is a major achievement."--Robert Bellah, co-author of Habits of the Heart "This penetrating analysis of the relationship of religious movements to political developments demonstrates how new forms of nationalism, rooted in indigenous religious and cultural traditions, are challenging the western model of the secular state in the Middle East, South Asia, and Eastern Europe. Because there is, Juergensmeyer argues, no satisfactory compromise between the religious vision of the national state and that of liberal democracy, a new kind of cold war may develop, no less obstructive of a peaceful international order than the old. An important, and sobering, feature of Juergensmeyer's analysis is his constant awareness of the significance of 'the religious right' in the United States and other western democracies."--Ainslie T. Embree, Columbia University "This is an outstanding study of an increasingly important subject. I find Juergensmeyer's concept of religious nationalism more useful in explaining the new worldwide religious resurgence than most concepts currently in use. The book is gracefully written and should be read by anyone interested in world affairs."--Ehud Sprinzak, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Author Biography

Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the editor of Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World (1992) and the author of Radhasoami Reality: The Logic of a Modern Faith (1991) among other books.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsPreface to the Paperback EditionIntroduction: The Rise of Religious NationalismPart One: Religion vs. Secular Nationalism1. The Loss of Faith in Secular NationalismFaith in Secular NationalismThe Religious Rejection of Secular Nationalism2. Competing Ideologies of OrderSecular Nationalism in the WestThe Competition between Two IdeologiesHow Secular Nationalism Failed to Accommodate ReligionCan Religion Accommodate the Nation-State?Part Two: The Global Confrontations3· Models of Religious Revolution: The Middle East 45The Ingredients of a Religious Revolt 45Iran: The Paradigmatic Religious Revolution 50Egypt's Incipient Religious Revolt 57Religious Revolt in a Jewish State 62The Islamic Intifada: A Revolt within the Palestinian Revolution 6g4· Political Targets of Religion: South Asia 78Militant Hindu NationalismThe Sikh War against Both Secular and Hindu NationalismSri Lanka's Unfinished Religious Revolt5· Religious Ambivalence toward Socialist Nationalism:Formerly Marxist StatesReligious Revival in MongoliaIslamic Nationalism in Central AsiaThe Religious Rejection of Socialism in Eastern EuropeThe Ambivalent Relationship of Religion and SocialismPatterns of Religious RevoltPart Three: The Problems Ahead6. Why Religious Confrontations Are ViolentThe Rhetoric of Cosmic WarWhen Cosmic War Becomes RealReligious Sanction for the Use of ViolenceEmpowering Marginal Peoples7· Democracy, Human Rights, and the ModernReligious StateTheocracy or Democracy?The Protection of Minority RightsThe Protection of Individual RightsModernity and the Religious StateConclusion: Can We Live with Religious Nationalism?NotesBibliographyList of InterviewsIndex

Review

"Mark Juergensmeyer's "The New Cold War? makes the history and issues surrounding world-wide fundamentalism accessible to a general audience." --Mary Warner Marien, "Christian Science Monitor

Kirkus US Review

A sensitive survey of religious nationalism around the world, with some gentle advice for Americans bewildered by all the uproar. The aim of religious nationalists of every stripe - Buddhists in Mongolia, Muslims in Palestine, Sikhs in India - is invariably the same, says Juergensmeyer (Religion and Political Science/University of Hawaii): to dismantle the secular state, perceived as morally and spiritually bankrupt, and replace it with a government founded on religious principles. Juergensmeyer rejects calling this trend "fundamentalist" - mostly because of the word's pejorative connotations - and instead labels it "anti-modernist." Perhaps postmodernist would be more accurate, for the movement is growing by leaps and bounds. Instead of "the emergence of mini-Americas all over the world," as anticipated just a generation go, the new world order seems to consist of various religious groups warring for theocratic states. The foremost example, of course, is Iran. But Juergensmeyer covers a number of other tinder spots, such as Egypt, where an Islamic revolution may be imminent; Israel, under pressure from the ultraright; India, where Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims clash with each other and the secular federal government; and Sri Lanka, where Buddhist extremists slaughter villagers and in turn are ruthlessly suppressed. Juergensmeyer outlines the threats (violence, destruction of human rights) and blessings (a restoration of morality to public office) of the phenomenon. He concludes that religious nationalism will continue to expand, urges cooperation rather than confrontation on the part of American policy-makers, and holds out the possibility of a happy synthesis in which "essential elements of democracy will be conveyed in the vessels of new religious states." Valuable for its global perspective and its ability to see things from the viewpoint of the religious nationalists themselves; as such, must reading for the Clinton Administration. (Kirkus Reviews)

Long Description

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, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Impassioned Muslim leaders in Egypt, Palestine, and Algeria, political rabbis in Israel, militant Sikhs in India, and triumphant Catholic clergy in Eastern Europe are all players in Juergensmeyer's study of the explosive growth of religious movements that decisively reject Western ideas of secular nationalism. Juergensmeyer revises our notions of religious revolutions. Instead of viewing religious nationalists as wild-eyed, anti-American fanatics, he reveals them as modern activists pursuing a legitimate form of politics. He explores the positive role religion can play in the political life of modern nations, even while acknowledging some religious nationalists' proclivity to violence and disregard of Western notions of human rights. Finally, he situates the growth of religious nationalism in the context of the political malaise of the modern West. Noting that the synthesis of traditional religion and secular nationalism yields a religious version of the modern nation-state, Juergensmeyer claims that such a political entity could conceivably embrace democratic values and human rights.

Details ISBN0520086511 Author Mark Juergensmeyer Short Title NEW COLD WAR RELIGIOUS NATIONA Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520086511 ISBN-13 9780520086517 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint University of California Press Subtitle Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State Country of Publication United States Illustrations Ill. Place of Publication Berkerley Residence CA, US Affiliation University of California, Santa Barbara University of California-Santa Edition Description Revised Pages 292 Series Comparative Studies in Religion and Society DOI 10.1604/9780520086517 Series Number 5 UK Release Date 1993-05-10 AU Release Date 1993-05-10 NZ Release Date 1993-05-10 US Release Date 1993-05-10 Year 1993 Publication Date 1993-05-10 DEWEY 261.7 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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