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Fundamentalism Reborn?

Author : William Maley
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814755860
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalism Reborn? written by William Maley and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays tracing the rebirth of fundamentalism in Afghanistan In 1996, the world watched with varying degrees of interest, surprise, and unease as armed, ultra-fundamentalist insurgents overthrew the Afghan government. Within days of their victory, the Taliban, a militant Islamic sect, were issuing draconian religious decrees, restricting women's employment and movement, rounding up Afghans at gunpoint to pray five times a day, and publicly executing political opponents and criminals. Composed of essays commissioned from the foremost experts on the Taliban, this anthology traces the movement's origins, its ascendance, the reasons for its success, and its role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Crucial to the Taliban's staying power as a governing force will be its relations with neighboring countries and with the West. Interestingly, given their intense hatred of Iran, the Taliban were enthusiastically supported by the U.S. government up to the very moment of their triumphant arrival in Kabul. Examining yet another country on the brink of ethnic disintegration, Fundamentalism Reborn? is a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the history, rise to power, and future of the most dramatic manifestation of Islamic fundamentalism since the Iranian revolution.

Fundamentalism

Author : Simon A. Wood
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611173558
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalism written by Simon A. Wood and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays considering how global fundamentalism influences our understanding of modern Christianity, Judaism, and Islam Thirty years after the Iranian Revolution and more than a decade since the events of 2001, the time is right to examine what the discourse on fundamentalism has achieved and where it might head from here. In this volume editors Simon A. Wood and David Harrington Watt offer eleven interdisciplinary perspectives framed by the debate between advocates and critics of the concept of fundamentalism that investigate it with regard to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The essays are integrated through engagement with a common selection of texts on fundamentalism and a common set of questions about the utility and disadvantages of the term, its varied application by scholars of particular groups, and the extent to which the term can encompass a cross-cultural set of religious responses to modernity. Although the notion of fundamentalism as a global phenomenon dates from around 1980, the term itself originated in North American Protestantism approximately six decades earlier and acquired pejorative connotations within five years of its invention. Since the early 1990s, however, many scholars have endorsed the view that the notion of fundamentalism—as relying on literalist interpretations of the scriptures, firm commitment to patriarchy, or refusal to confine religious matters to the private sphere—facilitates our understanding of modern religion by enabling us to identify and label structurally analogous developments in different religions. Critics of the term have identified problems with it, above all that the idea of global fundamentalism confuses more than it clarifies and unjustifiably overlooks, downplays, or homogenizes difference more than it identifies a genuine homogeny. The editor's rigorous exploration of both the usefulness and the limitations of the concept make it an excellent counterpoint to the many books that have a great deal to say about the former and very little to say about the latter. It will also serve as an ideal text for religious studies, history, and anthropology courses that explore the complex interface between religion and modernity as well as courses on theory and method in religious studies.

Fundamentalism at Home and Abroad

Author : Gerald A. Arbuckle
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814684246
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalism at Home and Abroad written by Gerald A. Arbuckle and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people, fundamentalism in the modern world has become synonymous with a radical form of Islam, but fundamentalism in many shapes and forms is also very much present in Western societies. Yes, fundamentalist economic, political, nationalistic, and religious movements are aplenty in the West. Using the lens of cultural anthropology, Gerald A. Arbuckle examines fundamentalist attitudes and movements in this book, exploring why they arise and how readers can constructively respond to them.

Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic

Author : David Currie
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681490587
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic written by David Currie and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Currie was raised in a devout Christian family whose father was a fundamentalist preacher and both parents teachers at Moody Bible Institute. Currie's whole upbringing was immersed in the life of fundamentalist Protestantism - theology professors, seminary presidents and founders of evangelical mission agencies were frequent guests at his family dinner table. Currie received a degree from Trinity International University and studied in the Masters of Divinity program. This book was written as an explanation to his fundamentalist and evangelical friends and family about why he became a Roman Catholic. Currie presents a very lucid, systematic and intelligible account of the reasons for his conversion to the ancient Church that Christ founded. He gives a detailed discussion of the important theological and doctrinal beliefs Catholic and evangelicals hold in common, as well as the key doctrines that separate us, particularly the Eucharist, the Pope, and Mary.

Afghanistan and the Taliban

Author : William Maley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780143028024
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan and the Taliban written by William Maley and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Late 1994, A New Force Unexpectedly Emerged In The Politics Of War-Ravaged Afghanistan The Taliban. This Was Ostensibly A Movement Of Religious Students, Inspired By A Vision Which Its Leader Mullah Mohammad Omar Was Said To Have Received In A Dream. First It Seized The Southern City Of Kandahar, Then In 1995 It Took Over The Ancient City Of Herat, And Finally, In September 1996, The Capital Kabul Fell To Its Forces. There Its Demand For The Seclusion Of Women Under A Strict Islamic Regime Immediately Captured World Attention. Much About The Taliban Remains Mysterious. Mullah Mohammad Omar Has Never Been Photographed, And Its Opponents Have Depicted It As The Creature Of Pakistani Military Intelligence, The Isi. The United States And Iran Have Also Become Entangled With The Taliban At Various Times. This Book Looks Beyond Popular Stereotypes To Explore The Roots Of The Taliban Movement, The Factors Which Contributed To Its Sudden Rise And The Implications Of Taliban Mobilisation For The Stability Of Afghanistan And The Surrounding Region. The Authors, All Well-Known Specialists On The Area, Are Sensitive Both To The Complexity Of Afghan Society And To The Fluidity Of Afghan Politics In The Wake Of Fifteen Years Of Upheaval And Destruction. Together They Provide A Many-Faceted Account Of One Of The Most Extraordinary Phenomena Of The Contemporary World. With An Updated And New Preface

Antifundamentalism in Modern America

Author : David Harrington Watt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501708538
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Antifundamentalism in Modern America written by David Harrington Watt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Harrington Watt's Antifundamentalism in Modern America gives us a pathbreaking account of the role that the fear of fundamentalism has played—and continues to play—in American culture. Fundamentalism has never been a neutral category of analysis, and Watt scrutinizes the various political purposes that the concept has been made to serve. In 1920, the conservative Baptist writer Curtis Lee Laws coined the word "fundamentalists." Watt examines the antifundamentalist polemics of Harry Emerson Fosdick, Talcott Parsons, Stanley Kramer, and Richard Hofstadter, which convinced many Americans that religious fundamentalists were almost by definition backward, intolerant, and anti-intellectual and that fundamentalism was a dangerous form of religion that had no legitimate place in the modern world. For almost fifty years, the concept of fundamentalism was linked almost exclusively to Protestant Christians. The overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the establishment of an Islamic republic led to a more elastic understanding of the nature of fundamentalism. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Americans became accustomed to using fundamentalism as a way of talking about Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists, as well as Christians. Many Americans came to see Protestant fundamentalism as an expression of a larger phenomenon that was wreaking havoc all over the world. Antifundamentalism in Modern America is the first book to provide an overview of the way that the fear of fundamentalism has shaped U.S. culture, and it will lead readers to rethink their understanding of what fundamentalism is and what it does.

The Bible Tells Them So

Author : Kathleen C. Boone
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887068942
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book The Bible Tells Them So written by Kathleen C. Boone and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of the Bible in forming the authority for fundamentalism, uses literary theory to assess sermons, and offers a fresh look at the movement

Afghanistan in the Post-Cold War Era

Author : Barnett R. Rubin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199791120
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan in the Post-Cold War Era written by Barnett R. Rubin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles written from 1989 to 2009, updated for this volume.

New Trends in Indo-Russian Relations

Author : V. D. Chopra
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788178352497
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book New Trends in Indo-Russian Relations written by V. D. Chopra and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of articles by over two dozen Indian specialists on India s relations with Russia and Russia Today, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It is a unique exercise. This study is first of its kind which makes an objective estimate of both India s relations with Russia and changes in Russia during 90 s in the last century.

Afghanistan from the Cold War Through the War on Terror

Author : Barnett R. Rubin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190229276
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan from the Cold War Through the War on Terror written by Barnett R. Rubin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles written from 1989 to 2009, updated for this volume.

Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias

Author : Richard H. Shultz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231129831
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias written by Richard H. Shultz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing on four specific hotbeds of instability-Somalia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Iraq-Richard H. Shultz Jr. and Andrea J. Dew carefully analyze tribal culture and clan associations, examine why "traditional" or "tribal" warriors fight, identify how these groups recruit, and where they find sanctuary, and dissect the reasoning behind their strategy. Their new introduction evaluates recent developments in Iraq and Afghanistan, the growing prevalence of Shultz and Dew's conception of irregular warfare, and the Obama Defense Department's approach to fighting insurgents, terrorists, and militias. War in the post-Cold War era cannot be waged through traditional Western methods of combat, especially when friendly states and outside organizations like al-Qaeda serve as powerful allies to the enemy. Bridging two centuries and several continents, Shultz and Dew recommend how conventional militaries can defeat these irregular yet highly effective organizations.

The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan

Author : Robert D. Crews
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674030028
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan written by Robert D. Crews and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This book] explores ... how has a seemingly anachronistic band of religious zealots managed to retain a tenacious foothold in the struggle for Afghanistan's future ... [It] investigates ... questions relating to the character of the Taliban, its evolution over time, and its capacity to affect the future of the region.--Dust jacket.

When Art Disrupts Religion

Author : Philip S. Francis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190279788
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book When Art Disrupts Religion written by Philip S. Francis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories gathered in these pages lay bare the power of the arts to unsettle and rework deeply ingrained religious beliefs and practices. This book grounds its narrative in the accounts of 82 Evangelicals who underwent a sea-change of religious identity through the intervention of the arts. "There never would have been an undoing of my conservative Evangelical worldview" confides one young man, "without my encounter with the transcendent work of Mark Rothko on that rainy afternoon in London's Tate Modern." "The characters in The Brothers Karamazov began to feel like family to me," reports another individual, "and the doubts of Ivan Karamazov slowly saturated my soul." As their stories unfold, the subjects of the study describe the arts as sources of, by turns, "defamiliarization," "comfort in uncertainty," "a stand-in for faith" and a "surrogate transcendence." Drawing on memoirs, interviews, and field notes, Philip Salim Franics explores the complex interrelationship of religion and art in the modern West, and offers an important new resource for on-going debates about the role of the arts in education and social life.

An Island in the Lake of Fire

Author : Mark Taylor Dalhouse
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820340960
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book An Island in the Lake of Fire written by Mark Taylor Dalhouse and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Religious Right's most dogmatic and resolute faction has its roots in three generations of the Bob Jones family of Greenville, South Carolina. An Island in the Lake of Fire is the first in-depth history of this militantly separatist, ultrafundamentalist dynasty to be written by an "outsider" with the Joneses' cooperation. Mark Taylor Dalhouse focuses on Bob Jones University (BJU) and the three colorful, charismatic Jones patriarchs, who, in succession, have led the school. Founded in 1927, BJU has a student population of five thousand; in addition, it boasts thousands more loyal, well-placed alumni not only in pulpits and Christian day schools across the country but also in elective offices and major corporations. Through their BJU network, and by their vigilance as self-appointed theological watchdogs, the Joneses have, since the 1950s, played a pivotal role in defining the extreme limits of American religious and cultural conservatism. Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell (whom Bob Jones Jr. labeled the "most dangerous man in America") are among the leading figures who have not measured up to BJU's fundamentalist standards. The defining doctrine at BJU, says Dalhouse, is separation from secularism in the modern world. Drawing on interviews with Bob Jones Jr., Bob Jones III, and others at BJU, as well as on hitherto inaccessible archival sources at the school, Dalhouse discusses the school's separatism in light of such factors as its refusal to seek accreditation and the stringent codes of dress, conduct, and even thought to which BJU students submit themselves. Attuned to the ironies and contradictions of the Joneses' separatist enterprise, Dalhouse points to the high proportion of accounting and finance degrees awarded at BJU, the school's widely admired cinema department (which has a Cannes Film Festival award to its name), and its nationally acclaimed Baroque and Renaissance art gallery. Dalhouse also challenges some widely held impressions about BJU that have circulated among its detractors, including assumptions about the regional makeup of the student body, and about the prospects of BJU students to gain entry into graduate programs at other schools. Filled with insights into the attitudes and personalities of the Joneses, An Island in the Lake of Fire offers a unique window into their influential, yet generally unrecognized, place in right-wing Christianity.

Afghanistan's Endless War

Author : Larry P. Goodson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295801581
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan's Endless War written by Larry P. Goodson and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned Taliban fundamentalists, Larry Goodson explains in this concise analysis of the Afghan war what has really been happening in Afghanistan in the last twenty years. Beginning with the reasons behind Afghanistan’s inability to forge a strong state -- its myriad cleavages along ethnic, religious, social, and geographical fault lines -- Goodson then examines the devastating course of the war itself. He charts its utter destruction of the country, from the deaths of more than 2 million Afghans and the dispersal of some six million others as refugees to the complete collapse of its economy, which today has been replaced by monoagriculture in opium poppies and heroin production. The Taliban, some of whose leaders Goodson interviewed as recently as 1997, have controlled roughly 80 percent of the country but themselves have shown increasing discord along ethnic and political lines.

Social Justice Goes To Church: The New Left in Modern American Evangelicalism

Author : Jon Harris
Publisher : Ambassador International
ISBN 13 : 1649600917
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Social Justice Goes To Church: The New Left in Modern American Evangelicalism written by Jon Harris and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The infusion of social justice into the gospel may well be the most dangerous problem facing the church today. Yet, it is going unnoticed in far too many circles. Social Justice Goes to Church can serve as a wake-up call." —Samuel C. Smith, Ph.D. Chair and Graduate Program Director, Department of History, Liberty University In order to understand why so many evangelicals recently support left-leaning political causes, it is important to know a little history. In the 1970s, many campus radicals raised in Christian homes brought neo-Marxist ideas from college back to church with them. At first, figures like Jim Wallis, Ron Sider, and Richard Mouw made great gains for their progressive evangelical cause. But, after the defeat of Jimmy Carter, the religious right stole the headlines. Today, a new crop of mainstream evangelicals has taken up the cause of the New Left, whether they know it or not. As pro-life evangelicals rush to support movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo, it is important to realize they are walking in footprints already laid down. Their mission may be more successful, but it is not new. To understand where the evangelical social justice movement is heading, it is vital to understand the origins of the movement. Social Justice Goes to Church: The New Left in Modern American Evangelicalism answers, from a historical perspective, the vital question, "Why are American evangelicals moving Left?" “The great injunction to the Church was to preach the Gospel to the world, while not being of the world. Social justice neatly reverses this trend, preaching the ways of the world into the church. That is not its only critical reversal. The Gospel is about freedom from guilt and sin and bondage. Social justice seeks above all to apportion guilt and sin and bondage, enslaving entire demographics and requiring that they kneel before man in attrition. How important that a book of this nature should enter the fray right now. I applaud Mr. Harris for his excellent work in providing the practical means of identifying and repelling this fraudulent force, this ideological interloper, this dangerous false teaching.” —Douglas Kruger Author of Political Correctness Does More Harm Than Good: How to Identify, Debunk, and Dismantle Dangerous Ideas

The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000

Author : Dennis Kux
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801865725
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000 written by Dennis Kux and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 2001-06-05 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive account of this roller coaster relationship, this book is a companion volume to Kux's Estranged Democracies, recently called "the definitive history of Pakistani-American relationsin the New York Times.