Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements: Vol 4 (Fundamentalism Project S.) - Hardcover

Marty

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226508854 ISBN 13: 9780226508856

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Synopsis

Surveying fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism, the contributors to this volume describe the organization of these movements, their leadership and recruiting techniques. The ways in which their ideological programmes and organizational structures shift over time in response to changing political and social environments are also documented. This text features treatments of fundamentalist movements that are topical issues, including The Islamic Group, charged with plotting to blow up the World Trade Center, the World Hindu Party, members of which sparked riots in India by destroying an Islamic shrine, and the revitalized Christian Right in the United States. Why do certain fundamentalist movements act aggressively against outsiders, while others are integrationist or accommodationist, and still others passive or separatist? This text serves as a reference source for understanding the dynamics of fundamentalist movements around the world.

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About the Author

Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby direct the Fundamentalism Project. Marty, the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of modern Christianity at the University of Chicago, is the senior editor of Christian Century. His many books include the multivolume Modern American Religion, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Appleby, director of Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Church and the Age Unite!: The Modernist Impulses in American Catholicism.

From the Inside Flap

Accounting for Fundamentalisms features treatments of fundamentalist movements, groups that often make headlines but are rarely understood, as part of the multivolume Fundamentalism Project. This book remains a standard reference source for comprehending the dynamics of fundamentalist movements around the world. Surveying fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, the contributors to Accounting for Fundamentalisms describe the organization of these movements, their leadership and recruiting techniques, and the ways in which their ideological programs and organizational structures shift over time in response to changing political and social environments.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226508854
• ISBN 13: 9780226508856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 862