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Summary
This book examines the highly politicized religious groups and movements that have surfaced since the late 1970s in the United States, Central America, South Africa, the Philippines, India, and the Middle East. Sahliyeh and others analyze this trend toward the politicization of religious conservatism and question a number of assumptions central to concepts of modernization. For example, it has been assumed by development theorists that the interrelated components of modernization would enhance the trend toward secularization of societies. This book shows that in many societies today religious revivalism and fundamentalism seem to be direct products of modernization. A global, comparative approach is utilized to formulate general explanations for religious revivalism and its implications for modernization, development, and politics.
"The topic is currently of global interest. In my view it makes a significant contribution to the understanding of complex issues that affect us all. At the same time it will stimulate useful debate in the fields of religion, politics, and social theory." -- Harold H. Oliver, Professor of Philosophical Theology, Boston University School of Theology
Emile Sahliyeh is Associate Professor of International Relations and Middle East Politics at University of North Texas.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Part I
Explaining the Phenomenon of Religious Resurgence
1. Religious Resurgence and Political Modernization
Emile Sahliyeh
2. The Stubborn Persistence of Religion in the Global Arena
Anson Shupe
3. The Incurably Religious Animal
Joe Barnhart
4. The Limits of Religious Resurgence
Donald Eugene Smith
Part II
Religious Resurgence of the Conservative Protestants in the United States, Central America, and South Africa
5. The New Christian Right in American Politics: Mobilization Amid Modernization
Kenneth D. Wald
6. Christian Fundamentalists and the Imperatives of American Politics
Allen D. Hertzke
7. What Do the Evangelicals Want?
Ronald Nash
8. Onward Christian Soldiers: The Case of Protestantism in Central America
Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy
9. Divided Evangelicals in South Africa
Lawrence Jones
Part III
The Church: An Instrument for Political Protest and Modernization
10. Liberalism in Search of a Political Agenda
Lonnie D. Kliever
11. The Revival of Church and State in the Philippines:Churches and Religion in the People Power Revolution and After
C. Neal Tate
12. The Sword and the Cross: Church-State Conflict in Latin America
Michael Dodson
Part IV
Religious Resurgence: A Mechanism for Social Discontent and Political Change
13. The Islamic Revival as Conservatism and as Progress in Contemporary Egypt
Louis J. Cantori
14. Women and Religion in a Modern Islamic Society: The Case of Kuwait
Jamal Sanad and Mark Tessler
15. Shi'i Islam: Bonyadgiri or Fundamentalism?
Gregory F. Rose
16. Religious Resurgence and Political Mobilization of the Shi'a in Lebanon
Augustus Richard Norton
17. The Politics of Religious Resurgence and Religious Terrorism: The Case of the Sikhs of India
Karandeep Singh
18. Religion and Politics in the Jewish State of Israel
