New Cold War?

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.

• AcknowledgmentsPreface to the Paperback EditionIntroduction: The Rise of Religious NationalismPart One: Religion vs. Secular Nationalism1. The Loss of Faith in Secular NationalismFaith in Secular NationalismThe Religious Rejection of Secular Nationalism2. Competing Ideologies of OrderSecular Nationalism in the WestThe Competition between Two IdeologiesHow Secular Nationalism Failed to Accommodate ReligionCan Religion Accommodate the Nation-State?Part Two: The Global Confrontations3· Models of Religious Revolution: The Middle East 45The Ingredients of a Religious Revolt 45Iran: The Paradigmatic Religious Revolution 50Egypt's Incipient Religious Revolt 57Religious Revolt in a Jewish State 62The Islamic Intifada: A Revolt within the Palestinian Revolution 6g4· Political Targets of Religion: South Asia 78Militant Hindu NationalismThe Sikh War against Both Secular and Hindu NationalismSri Lanka's Unfinished Religious Revolt5· Religious Ambivalence toward Socialist Nationalism:Formerly Marxist StatesReligious Revival in MongoliaIslamic Nationalism in Central AsiaThe Religious Rejection of Socialism in Eastern EuropeThe Ambivalent Relationship of Religion and SocialismPatterns of Religious RevoltPart Three: The Problems Ahead6. Why Religious Confrontations Are ViolentThe Rhetoric of Cosmic WarWhen Cosmic War Becomes RealReligious Sanction for the Use of ViolenceEmpowering Marginal Peoples7· Democracy, Human Rights, and the ModernReligious StateTheocracy or Democracy?The Protection of Minority RightsThe Protection of Individual RightsModernity and the Religious StateConclusion: Can We Live with Religious Nationalism?NotesBibliographyList of InterviewsIndex