Global Rebellion

Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to al Qaeda

Mark Juergensmeyer

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9780520261570
• eBook ISBN: 9780520934764
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Politics

Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreaking book, The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State, Mark Juergensmeyer here provides an up-to-date road map through this complex new religious terrain. Basing his discussion on interviews with militant activists and case studies of rebellious movements, Juergensmeyer puts a human face on conflicts that have become increasingly abstract. He revises our notions of religious revolution and offers positive proposals for responding to religious activism in ways that will diminish the violence and lead to an accommodation between radical religion and the secular world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Rise of Religious Rebellion
• 1. The Religious Challenge to the Secular State
• 2. The Front Line of Religious Rebellion: The Middle East
• 3. Political Targets of Rebellion: South, Central, and Southeast Asia
• 4. Post–Cold War Rebels: Europe, East Asia, and the United States
• 5. Transnational Networks: Global Jihad
• 6. The Enduring Problems of Violence, Democracy, and Human Rights
• Conclusion: Religious Rebellion and Global War
• Notes
• List of Interviews
• Bibliography
• Index