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Utopias In Conflict - Religion And Nationalism In Modern India

by Ainslie T. Embree

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 This compact, incisive study by a senior scholar explores two sources of violent conflict in India: religion and nationalism. Showing how the political aspects of religion and the ideological character of nationalism have led inexorably to struggle, Ainslie T. Embree argues that the tension between competing visions of the just society has determined the social and political life of India. In India, as elsewhere in the world at the end of the twentieth century, religions legitimized violence as people struggled for what they regarded as their legitimate claims upon the future. As examples of the tension between religious and nationalist visions of the good society, Embree examines two explosive casesone involving Muslim-Hindu communal encounters, the other, the separatist movement of the Sikhs. Thought-provoking and searching, Utopias in Conflict should interest anyone concerned about fundamentalism, the problems of national integration, and politics and religion in the Third World. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.<br /><br />Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.</DIV
Devi - Goddesses Of India

by Donna Marie Wulff e John Stratton Hawley

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 This collection explores 12 different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the Great Goddess. They range from the liquid goddess-energy of the River Ganges to the possessing, entrancing heat of Bhagavati and Seranvali.
New Cold War? - Religious Nationalism Confronts The Secular State

by Mark Juergensmeyer

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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.
Leveling Crowds - Ethnonationalist Conflicts And Collective Violence In South Asia

by Stanley J. Tambiah

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 This work is concerned with the ethno-nationalist explosions that have occurred in many regions of the world. It focuses primarily on collective violence, in the form of civilian "riots" in South Asia, using selected instances in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India.
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Culture Of Conspiracy - Apocalyptic Visions In Contemporary America

by Michael Barkun

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 It is well known that some Americans are obsessed with conspiracies. This book examines contemporary American conspiracism. It discusses a range of material - involving inner-earth caves, government black helicopters, alien abductions, secret New World Order cabals, and much more - that few realize exists in our culture.
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Terror In The Mind Of God, Fourth Edition - The Global Rise Of Religious Violence

by Mark Juergensmeyer

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 Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism? Why has the rediscovery of religion's power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way? What, if anything, can be done about it? This book answers these questions and more. It analyzes in detail terrorism related to almost all the world's major religious traditions.
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Culture Of Conspiracy - Apocalyptic Visions In Contemporary America

by Michael Barkun

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 Delves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the "birther" controversy surrounding Barack Obama's American citizenship, and how the conspiracy landscape has changed with the rise of the Internet and other new media.
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Pious Passion - The Emergence Of Modern Fundamentalism In The United States And Iran

by Martin Riesebrodt

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 A study of religious fundamentalism comparing two seemingly disparate movements - one in the US during the early-20th century, the other in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s. The book examines their origins and views them as a community's social and moral mobilization against its own marginalization.
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Leveling Crowds - Ethnonationalist Conflicts And Collective Violence In South Asia

by Stanley J. Tambiah

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 This work is concerned with the ethno-nationalist explosions that have occurred in many regions of the world. It focuses primarily on collective violence, in the form of civilian "riots" in South Asia, using selected instances in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India.
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Utopias In Conflict - Religion And Nationalism In Modern India

by Ainslie T. Embree

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Utopias In Conflict - Religion And Nationalism In Modern India

by Ainslie T. Embree

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A Culture Of Conspiracy - Apocalyptic Visions In Contemporary America

by Michael Barkun

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 Delves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the "birther" controversy surrounding Barack Obama's American citizenship, and how the conspiracy landscape has changed with the rise of the Internet and other new media.
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Saints And Virtues

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 This book explores a larger family of saints--those celebrated not just by Christianity but by other religious traditions of the world: Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Confucian, African, and Caribbean. The essays show how saints serve as moral exemplars in the communities that venerate them.
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Absent Lord - Ascetics And Kings In A Jain Ritual Culture

by Lawrence A. Babb

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 The ritual culture of image-worshipping Sventambar Jains of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan are explored in this volume, with the author linking Jain tradition to the social identity of existing Jain communities.
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Devi - Goddesses Of India

by Donna Marie Wulff e John Stratton Hawley

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 This collection explores 12 different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the Great Goddess. They range from the liquid goddess-energy of the River Ganges to the possessing, entrancing heat of Bhagavati and Seranvali.
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China'S Catholics - Tragedy And Hope In An Emerging Civil Society

by Richard Madsen

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 After suffering isolation and persecution during the Maoist era, the Catholic Church in China has reemerged with astonishing vitality. This book focuses on this revival and relates it to the larger issue of the changing structure of Chinese society, particularly to its implications for the development of a 'civil society'.
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Pious Passion - The Emergence Of Modern Fundamentalism In The United States And Iran

by Martin Riesebrodt

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 A study of religious fundamentalism comparing two seemingly disparate movements - one in the US during the early-20th century, the other in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s. The book examines their origins and views them as a community's social and moral mobilization against its own marginalization.
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Global Rebellion - Religious Challenges To The Secular State, From Christian Militias To Al Qaeda

by Mark Juergensmeyer

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 From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. This book provides a road map through this complex religious terrain. It puts a human face on conflicts that have become increasingly abstract.
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The Bridge Betrayed - Religion And Genocide In Bosnia

by Michael A. Sells

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 The atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina have stunned people throughout the world. Drawing on historical documents, unpublished United Nations reports, articles from Serbian and Bosnian media, personal contacts in the region, and Internet postings, this title reveals the central role played by religious mythology in the Bosnian tragedy.
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The New Cold War? - Religious Nationalism Confronts The Secular State

by Mark Juergensmeyer

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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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Imagining Karma - Ethical Transformation In Amerindian, Buddhist, And Greek Rebirth

by Gananath Obeyesekere

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 Exploring the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada, and the northwest coast of North America, this work compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern Indic civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar and Plato.
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The Challenge Of Fundamentalism - Political Islam And The New World Disorder

by Bassam Tibi

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 Offers an important and disquieting analysis of this particular synthesis of religion and politics. The author sees Islamic fundamentalism as the result of Islam's confrontation with modernity and not only - as it is widely believed - economic adversity.

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