| Description |
xii, 428 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Anti-Secularist Policies of Religion / Carl F. Hallencreutz and David Westerlund -- Conservative Protestanism, Politics and Civil Religion in the United States / Simon Coleman -- Behold I Make All Things New! Black Militant Islam and the American Apocalypse / Mattias Gardell -- 'The Last Stand'? Odawa Revitalizationists versus U.S. Law / Melissa A. Pflug -- Resacralization of the Profane: Government, Religion and Ethnicity in Modern Guatemala / Virginia Garrard-Burnett -- Christian Orthodoxy and Contemporary Russian Nationalism / Thomas Parland -- The Revealed Word and the Struggle for Authority: Interpretation and Use of Islamic Terminology among Algerian Islamists / Leif Stenberg -- The Discourse of the Ikhwan of Sudan and Secularism / Muhammad Mahmoud -- The Secular State and Islam in Senegal / Roman Loimeier -- Christian Fundamentalism, State and Politics in Black Africa / Paul Gifford |
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After Ujamaa: Is Religious Revivalism a Threat to Tanzania's Stability / Frieder Ludwig -- Dynamic Hinduism: Towards a New Hindu Nation / Eva Hellman -- Religious Nationalism and Sikhism / Ishtiaq Ahmed -- Buddhist Activism in Sri Lanka / Bruce Matthews -- Questioning Autocracy in Burma: Buddhism between Traditionalism and Modernism / Mikael Gravers -- The Politics of Philippine Fundamentalism / Susan Rose -- Islamism in Multireligious Societies: The Experience of Malaysia and Indonesia / Sven Cederroth -- The Islamic Movement in Afghanistan: National Liberation and the Challenge of Power / Asta Olesen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Religion and politics -- Case studies.
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Religious fundamentalism -- Case studies.
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Secularism -- Case studies.
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| Author |
Westerlund, David.
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| LC no. |
95019152 |
| ISBN |
0312125224 (cloth) |
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