ACCOUNTING FOR FUNDAMENTALISMS: THE DYNAMIC CHARACTER OF MOVEMENTS.

MARTY, Martin E. And R. Scott Appleby (Edit). Cont

ISBN 10: 0226508854 / ISBN 13: 9780226508856

Published by University Of Chicago Press,, Chicago, 1994

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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large fat 8vo. Contributors include Nancy T. Ammerman, Susan Harding, Barbara D, Metcalf, Susan Bayly. ISBN: 0226508854 Pages: 861 Ex British Foreign Office library with a few library markings else VG. Seller Inventory # A66524

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Title: ACCOUNTING FOR FUNDAMENTALISMS: THE DYNAMIC ...

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press,, Chicago

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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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.

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.