Fundamentalism

Brekke, Torkel:
Fundamentalism : Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization / Torkel Brekke. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. - xii, 291 S.
ISBN 978-0-521-76625-8
£ 65,00 (Hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-521-14979-2
£ 19,99 (Paperback)
DDC: 201.72; 322.1
-- Angekündigt für März 2012 --

Beschreibung
This book investigates the origins of fundamentalism, outlining its characteristics and the history of key fundamentalist movements around the world, considering examples from Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism. The book argues that fundamentalism develops when modern lay religious leaders challenge the authority of secular states and traditional religious establishments. These new leaders and their followers seek to infuse religious values and practices into all spheres, especially law, politics, education and science. The patterns of religious authority and leadership that characterize fundamentalism have their roots in a Christian context but were globalized through intense intercultural contacts after the mid-nineteenth century. Fundamentalism is a thoroughly modern and global phenomenon because it presupposes the globalization of ideas and practices concerning religious leadership and organization, as well as universal changes in the relationship of religion to modern societies and states. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgments. xi
Introduction. 1
   - Should we use the word "Fundamentalism"? 3
   - The Fundamentalism Project. 6
   - Fundamentalism: Where and When? 8
   - Radical Conservatives. 12
PART I. THE HISTORICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF FUNDAMENTALISM
   1. Religion and Modernity in the West. 17
      - Modernity and Religion. 18
      - Modernity, Modernism, and the Original Fundamentalism. 21
      - Secularization as Differentiation. 27
      - Privatization of Religion - and De-privatization? 31
      - Secularization as Decline in Religious Authority. 34
   2. Religion and Globalization. 39
      - The Globalization of Differentiation. 40
      - Colonialism and Missionaries. 45
      - Improper Ideas of God: Missionaries as Agents of Globalized Religion. 50
      - Globalization and the Differentiation of Religion. 53
      - Globalization and the Objectification of Religion. 58
   3. A Global Shift in Religious Authority. 64
      - Prophecy and Religious Authority. 65
      - Lay Authority and Fundamentalism in the Muslim World. 70
      - Religious Authority in Sunni and Shia Islam Contrasted. 75
      - Buddhist Fundamentalism and Religious Authority. 80
      - Protestantism and Fundamentalism. 87
   4. Prophecy and Preaching. 88
      - The Origins of Modern Preaching. 89
      - Modern Preachers in Buddhism and Hinduism. 92
      - Modern Muslim Preachers. 95
PART II. FUNDAMENTALIST STRUGGLES
   5. The Struggle for the State. 101
      - The Islamic Caliphate. 101
      - The Struggle against Paganism. 107
      - Christian Dominion. 113
      - Hindu Nationalism and Fundamentalism. 119
      - Dharmarajya and Integral Humanism. 128
      - Dharmarajya - the Buddhist State. 133
   6. The Struggle over Law. 140
      - Biblical Law in America. 141
      - Islamic Law and Modernity. 144
      - Islamic Law in Egypt. 149
      - Islamic Law in Pakistan. 153
      - Hindu Law. 159
      - The Quarrel over a Uniform Civil Code. 161
      - Buddhism and Law. 165
      - God's Law and Real Freedom. 172
   7. The Struggle for the Sciences. 177
      - Evolutionism in the Pulprit. 178
      - Christ or Criticism: the Struggle with the Science of History. 184
      - Islam and Creationism. 194
      - Ancient Hinduism and Modern Science. 202
      - The Scientific Religion of the Buddha. 206
   8. The Struggle over Education. 212
      - Religion in the American Classroom. 213
      - Saffron-Colored Education in India. 222
      - Islamic Schools: Government Pawns or Nests of Terrorism? 226
      - Buddhism and Education. 233
   9. The Struggle over Women. 237
      - Authority and Obedience in the Christian Fundamentalist Family. 238
      - Sita or Durga? Hindu Fundamentalist Women and Their Divine Models. 243
      - Women, Modernity, and Fundamentalism in Egypt. 250
      - Purdah in Pakistan. 256
      - Women between Fundamentalism and Modernism. 260
Conclusion. 264
Bibliography. 271
Index. 287.

Autor
TORKEL BREKKE, University of Oslo. Profile page.

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