Mark Juergensmeyer 
The New Cold War? [EPUB ebook] 
Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State

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.



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, Centr

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Acknowledgments

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Introduction: The Rise of Religious Nationalism


Part One: Religion vs. Secular Nationalism

1. The Loss of Faith in Secular Nationalism

Faith in Secular Nationalism

The Religious Rejection of Secular Nationalism

2. 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?


Part Two: The Global Confrontations

3· Models of Religious Revolution: The Middle East 45

The Ingredients of a Religious Revolt 45

Iran: The Paradigmatic Religious Revolution 50

Egypt’s Incipient Religious Revolt 57

Religious Revolt in a Jewish State 62

The Islamic Intifada: A Revolt within the Palestinian Revolution 6g

4· Political Targets of Religion: South Asia 78

Militant Hindu Nationalism

The Sikh War against Both Secular and Hindu Nationalism

Sri Lanka’s Unfinished Religious Revolt

5· Religious Ambivalence toward Socialist Nationalism:

Formerly Marxist States

Religious Revival in Mongolia

Islamic Nationalism in Central Asia

The Religious Rejection of Socialism in Eastern Europe

The Ambivalent Relationship of Religion and Socialism

Patterns of Religious Revolt


Part Three: The Problems Ahead

6. 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

7· Democracy, Human Rights, and the Modern

Religious State

Theocracy or Democracy?

The Protection of Minority Rights

The Protection of Individual Rights

Modernity and the Religious State


Conclusion: Can We Live with Religious Nationalism?


Notes

Bibliography

List of Interviews

Index

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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.