Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective

Revival of Religious Fundamentalism in East and West
Herausgeber: Misztal, Bronislaw; Shupe, Anson

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume proposes that across many cultures, the revival of religious fundamentalism is a response to the globalization of economies and markets, the weakening of the autonomy of national political sovereignties, and the corruption of cultural autonomy because global information systems are intruding upon regional and ethnic symbolic orders and modes of discourse. Editors Bronislaw Misztal and Anson Shupe bring together theoretical and empirical studies that focus on fundamentalist social movements in North and Central America and Eastern Europe and that examine the role religion plays in determining the direction of social evolution. Each chapter emphasizes a common set of processes at work: how religious identities arise or reemerge to confront the globalization trend, how various social movements cope with pressures to conform their identities, and how the globalization trend sets in motion the antithetical reaction of the nationalistic/religious dialectic that it was thought to have eliminated. Part I considers the concept of global fundamentalist resurgence and discusses how energetic, even radical, religious movements gradually mellow to accommodate various social institutions they set out to reform or purify. An analysis of American Christian fundamentalism in its relation to modernity and the production of symbolic capital serves as an example. The chapters in Part II examine fundamentalist religious revivals in previously Eastern bloc countries, with special attention to Poland, which gained visibility as one of the first nations to challenge the Communist Party's hegemony. Part III explores religious revival in North and Central America, from the new Christian right and its auxiliary anti-evolution creation science controversy to Protestant fundamentalism and pacifistic resistance in Latin America. Finally, in Part IV the authors attempt predictions about the role of religion in social movements to come. Recommended for sociologists, political scientists, historians, and religious studies scholars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 525g
• ISBN-13: 9780275942182
• ISBN-10: 027594218X
• Artikelnr.: 25569955

Autorenporträt

Bronislaw Misztal, Anson Shupe

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Global Fundamentalism Phenomenon Making Sense of the
Global Revival of Fundamentalism by Bronislaw Misztal and Anson Shupe
Fundamentalism in America Revisited: The Fading of Modernity as a Source of
Symbolic Capital by John H. Simpson The Accommodation and Deradicalization
of Innovative Religious Movements by Anson Shupe Religious Revival in the
Eastern Bloc The Vanishing Point: The Religious Components of Peasant
Politics of Protest, Poland, 1970-1980 by Krzysztof Gorlach Religious
Revival or Political Substitution: Polish Roman Catholic Movements After
World War II by Janusz L. Mucha and Maciej K. Zaba Religious Nationalism:
Six Propositions from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union by Hank Johnston
Religious Revival in the Western Hemisphere Reasons for the Growing
Popularity of Christian Reconstruction: The Determination to Attain
Dominion by Bruce Barron and Anson Shupe Scientific Creationism and the
Politics of Lifestyle Concern in the United States by Raymond A. Eve and
Francis B. Harrold Explaining Protestant Fundamentalism in Central America
by Michael Dodson Advocating Nonviolent Direct Action in Latin America: The
Antecedents and Emergence of SERPAJ by Ronald Pagnucco and John D. McCarthy
The Future of Religious Fundamentalism East and West Radical Religious
Movements: A Global Perspective by Anthony B. van Fossen The Conflict
between "Denominational State" and "State of Law" by Bronislaw Misztal
Movementization of Social Change by Slawomir Jan Magala References Index