Part IV

 

12. Secularisation and Religious Fundamentalism

 

Required:

Huntington , Clash of Civilizations , pp 95-101 (‘La Revanche de Dieu’) [PC] 909.829 HUN

Sivan, Emmanuel. 2003. 'The Enclave Culture'. in Strong religion : the rise of fundamentalisms around the world. , edited by G. A. Almond, R. Scott Appleby, and Emmanuel Sivan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Abdelhadi , Magdi. 2003. 'The Islamic revival in Egypt , ' BBC , Friday , 26 September

< http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/special/islam/3136154.stm>

Ayubi , N. 1980. 'The Political Revival of Islam - the Case of Egypt , ' International Journal of Middle East Studies , 12 (4): 481-499 - JSTOR

*Bruce, Steve (ed.). 2002. God is Dead (Oxford: Blackwell), ch. 1 - 200.91821 BRU (1 week)

 

Podcasts (moderately useful):

Secularism:

Jose Casanova on secularization

Charles Taylor - The Future of the Secular

Simon Glendenning, LSE, Modernity and the Meaning of Life (on secularisation)

Religion:

Rodney Stark - The Market Approach to Understanding Religion

Stark et al., Christian Establishments and the Neglect of Faith

Rodney Stark - Early Christianity: Opium of the Privileged?

US Christian Fundamentalism

Alan Wolfe - The Transformation of American Religion

 

Recommended:

Secularisation (esp. Europe)

*Bruce , Steve (ed.). 2002. God is Dead ( Oxford : Blackwell) , chs. 1 (secularisation) , 3 ( Britain ) , 11 (US) and 12 (conclusion) – [ NIS ]

*Martin , David. [1978] 1993. A General Theory of Secularization (Aldershot: Gregg Revivals) , ch. 2 – [NIS]

*Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. 2004. Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Swatos, William H., and Daniel V. A. Olson. 2000. The secularization debate. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : Co-published with the Association for the Sociology of Religion.

Bruce , Steve (ed.) 1992. Religion and Modernization: Sociologists and Historians Debate the Secularization Thesis (Oxford: OUP) - 306.609034 REL [PC]

Martin, David. 2005. On Secularization. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Wallis , Roy and Steve Bruce. 1991 'Secularization: Trends , Data and Theory , ' Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion , 3 , pp. 1-31. – [JNIS] - available electronically

Kaufmann, Eric. 2008. 'Human Development and the Demography of Secularisation in Global Perspective'. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 4.

Barker , E. , J.Beckford and K.Dobbelaere , (eds.) 1993. Secularization , Rationalism and Sectarianism: Essays in Honour of Bryan Wilson (Oxford: OUP) - 306.6 SEC

Fundamentalism

Christian

*Ammerman, Nancy. 1991. 'North American Protestant Fundamentalism', in Fundamentalisms observed, The Fundamentalism project, edited by M. E. Marty, R. Scott Appleby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Micklethwait, John, and Adrian Wooldridge. 2009. God is back : how the global revival of faith is changing the world. New York: Penguin Press

Jenkins, Philip. 2007. The next christendom : the coming of global Christianity. Rev. and expanded ed. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Martin, David. 2001. Pentecostalism: the World their Parish. Oxford: Blackwell.

Greeley , A. 2001. 'The Future of Religion in America , ' Society , vol. 38 , no. 3 , pp. 32-37 – [JNIS]

Jenkins, Philip. 2007. God's continent : Christianity, Islam, and Europe's religious crisis. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Wolfe, Alan. 2003. The transformation of American religion : how we actually live our faith. New York: Free Press

*Green, John Clifford, Mark J. Rozell, and Clyde Wilcox. 2003. The Christian right in American politics : marching to the millennium. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

Wolfe , A. 2004. 'Dieting for Jesus , ' Prospect , January

Clark , V. 2003. 'The Christian Zionists' , Prospect , July

Bruce , S. 1998. Conservative Protestant Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press) , ch. 5

Jewish

Efron, N. J. (2003). Real Jews : secular versus ultra-orthodox and the struggle for Jewish identity in Israel. New York, Basic Books.

Friedman, M. (1992). 'The Lost Kiddush Cup: Changes in Ashkenzic haredi Culture, a tradition in crisis' in J. Wertheimer. The Uses of Tradition. Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press: 175-86.

Heilman, S. C. (2006). Sliding to the right : the contest for the future of American Jewish Orthodoxy. Berkeley, University of California Press.

Shahak, I. and N. Mezvinsky (1999). Jewish fundamentalism in Israel. London ; Sterling, VA, Pluto Press.

General

Marty, Martin E., R. Scott Appleby, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1991. The Fundamentalism project. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Marty, Martin E., R. Scott Appleby, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1993. Fundamentalisms and society : reclaiming the sciences, the family, and education, The Fundamentalism project. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Marty, Martin E., F. Scott Appleby, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1993. Fundamentalisms and the state : remaking polities, economies, and militance, The Fundamentalism project. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Marty, Martin E., R. Scott Appleby, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1995. Fundamentalisms comprehended, The fundamentalism project. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Marty, Martin E., R. Scott Appleby, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1991. Fundamentalisms observed, The Fundamentalism project. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Almond, Gabriel A., R. Scott Appleby, and Emmanuel Sivan. 2003. Strong religion : the rise of fundamentalisms around the world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Essay Question:

·        Which is the more widespread trend of our time , secularisation or religious revival?

 

13. Religion and Nationalism

 

Required:

Hastings , Adrian . 1997. The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity , Religion and Nationalism (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press), ch.8 - 320.54 HAS [PC]

Smith , Anthony. 1998. Nationalism and Modernism , ( London & New York : Routledge) , ch 5 - SLC 320.5401 SMI

 

Case: Islam and Nationalism

Zubaida, Sami. 2004. 'Islam and Nationalism: continuities and contradictions,' Nations & Nationalism, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 407-420 - [E journals]

Roy, Olivier. 2001. 'Neofundamentalism' http://essays.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/roy_text_only.htm

 

Podcasts:

Mark Juergensmeyer God and war

Scott Appleby - Responding to the Roots of Religious Violence

Afghanistan conflict

Pakistan: What Next?

 

Recommended:

*Smith , Anthony D. 2004. Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity ( Oxford : Oxford University Press)

*Smith , Anthony D. 1981. The Ethnic Revival ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press)

Kedourie , Elie. 1971. Nationalism in Asia and Africa ( London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

*Juergensmeyer , Mark. 1993. The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State ( Berkeley & Los Angeles , CA : University of California Press)

*O'Brien , Connor Cruise. 1988. God-Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press)

Fox , J. 2004. 'The Rise of Religious Nationalism and Conflict: Ethnic conflict and revolutionary wars , 1945-2001 , ' Journal of Peace Research , 41 (6): 715-731

Strenski , Ivan. 2002. Contesting Sacrifice: Religion , nationalism , and social thought in Fran ce ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press )

*Seljak , David. 1996. 'Why the Quiet Revolution was “Quiet”: The Catholic Church’s Reaction to the Secularization of Nationalism in Quebec after 1960 , ' Historical Studies , 62 (1996) , pp. 109-124 <http://www.umanitoba.ca/colleges/st_pauls/ccha/Back%20Issues/CCHA1996/Seljak.htm>

Merdjanova , Ina. 2000. 'In Search of Identity: Nationalism and Religion in Eastern Europe , ' Religion , State & Society 28 , no. 3

Sells , M. 2003. 'Crosses of Blood: Sacred space , religion , and violence in Bosnia-Hercegovina , ' Sociology of Religion , 64 (3): 309-331

Perica , V. 2002. Balkan Idols: Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav states ( Oxford : Oxford University Press)

Baer , M. 2004. 'The Double Bind of Race and Religion: the Conversion of the Donme of Salonika to Turkish Secular Nationalism , 1908-1944 , ' Comparative Studies in Society and History , vol. 46 , no. 4

Aliyev , F.B. 2004. 'Framing perceptions of Islam and the 'Islamic revival' in the post-Soviet countries , ' Journal For The Study of Religions and Ideologies , 2 (7): 123-136 Yemelianova G.M. 2005. 'Kinship , ethnicity and religion in post-Communist societies - Russia 's autonomous republic of Kabordino-Balkariya , ' Ethnicities , 5 (1): 51-82

Sengupt , A. 1999. 'The Making of a Religious Identity - Islam and the state in Uzbekistan , ' Economic and Political Weekly , 34 (52): 3649-3652

Sells , M. 2003. 'Crosses of blood: Sacred space , religion , and violence in Bosnia-Hercegovina , ' Sociology of Religion , 64 (3): 309-331

Singh , Gurhapal. 1993. 'Ethnic Conflict in India : a case study of Punjab , ' in O'Leary , B. & John McGarry (eds). 1993. The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation ( New York & London : Routledge) , pp. 84-105 - slc KDJ [Mac] [PC]

McGarry , John. , and O'Leary , Brendan (eds).1995. Explaining Northern Ireland ( Oxford : Blackwell) , ch. 1

Jaffrelot , C. (1996) The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics ( London : Hurst )

Jankowski , Mark and Israel Gershoni(eds). 1997. Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East ( New York : Columbia University Press)

Akenson , Donald Harman. 1992. God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa , Israel , and Ulster ( Ithaca : Cornell University Press)

Bruce , Steve. 1992. The Red Hand: Protestant Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland ( Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press)

Fox , J. 2004. 'The Rise of Religious Nationalism and Conflict: Ethnic conflict and revolutionary wars , 1945-2001 , ' Journal of Peace Research , 41 (6): 715-731 NOV 2004

Miner , S.M. 2003. Stalin's Holy War: Religion , Nationalism , and Alliance Politics , 1941-1945 ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press)

Armstrong , John. 1982. Nations Before Nationalism ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press).

Patterson , H. 1997. The Politics of Illusion: A Political History of the IRA ( London and Chicago : Serif)

Paris, Jonathan. 2010. Prospects for Pakistan   (London: Legatum Institute) - esp sections on Islamism and nationalism.

 

Essay Question

·        Does religion oppose or enhance nationalism?

14. Case Study: Islamic Fundamentalism

 

Required:

Huntington , S. 1993. Clash of Civilizations , pp. 109-120 [PC] 909.829 HUN

Kaufmann, Eric. 2012. 'Primordialists and constructionists: a typology of theories of religion,' Religion, Brain and Behavior, pp. 1-15

 

Case 1: The Saudi Mission

 

Kepel , Gilles. 2002. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam (London: Tauris), ch.3

 

Case 2: Egyptian Political Islam: an organisational-materialist explanation

 

Wickham, Carrie R. 2002. Mobilizing Islam, Religion, Activism and Political Change in Egypt. New York: Columbia University Press, ch. 7

 

Podcasts

John L Esposito, Who Speaks for Islam

Globalization and Islam - Olivier Roy

John Voll on Islam

Tariq Ramadan - Muslims Today: A Radical Reform

Tariq Ramadan - reconciling Islam and the West

 

Recommended:

*Zubaida , S. 2003. Law and Power in the Islamic World (London & new York: I. B. Tauris) , ch. 5 - [PC] 11858 (see also review by Eric Kaufmann in Comparative Studies in Society and History , vol. 47 , no. 1. , (2005) - SwetsWise) Gellner, E. 1981. Muslim Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Juergensmeyer , Mark. 2001. Terror in the Mind of God (Berkeley: University of California Press) - 291.178331 JUE [PC]

*Abdo , Geneive. 2000. No God but God: Egypt and the triumph of Islam (Oxford , UK , New York , NY: Oxford University Press)

*Wickham , Carrie Rosefsky. 2002. Mobilizing Islam: Religion , Activism , and Political Change In Egypt (New York: Columbia University Press)

Q, Wiktorowicz. 2001. The management of Islamic activism: Salafis, the Muslim brotherhood, and state power. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press).

Meijer, Roel. 2009. Global Salafism : Islam's new religious movement. New York: Columbia University Press.

Rinaldo, Rachel. 2008. 'Pious Islam and Women's Activism in Indonesia'. Michigan State University Women in Development Working Paper Series # 291.

Commins, David Dean. 2006. The Wahhabi mission and Saudi Arabia. London ; New York: I.B. Tauris.

Ahmad, Mumtaz. 1991. 'Islamic Fundamentalism in South Asia: The Jamaat-i-Islami and the Tablighi Jamaat' in Fundamentalisms observed, The Fundamentalism project.

Piscatori, James. 1994. 'Accounting for Islamic Fundamentalisms' (ch 14) in Marty, Martin E., R. Scott Appleby, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1994. Accounting for fundamentalisms : the dynamic character of movements, The Fundamentalism project. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Metcalf, Barbara D. 1994. ' "Remaking Ourselves": Islamic Self-Fashioning in a Global Movement of Spiritual Renewal' (ch 25) in Accounting for fundamentalisms : the dynamic character of movements

Liddle , R.W. 1996. 'The Islamic turn in Indonesia: A political explanation' , Journal of Asian Studies , 55 (3): 613-634

Aliyev ,   F.B. 2005. 'Framing perceptions of Islam and the "Islamic revival" in the post-Soviet countries , ' Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies , 2 (7): 123-136

Haddad , Yvonne Yazbeck and Esposito , John L. 1997. The Islamic Revival Since 1988: A Critical Survey and Bibliography (Westport , CT: Greenwood)

Yemelianova , G. 2006. 'Kinship , ethnicity and religion in post-Communist societies - Russia's autonomous republic of Kabordino-Balkariya , ' Ethnicities 5 (1): 51-82

Roy , A. 1999. 'Impact of Islamic revival and reform in colonial Bengal and Bengal Muslim identity: A revisit , ' South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies vol. 22: 39-77 (see also related articles in this special issue)

Sengupt , A. 1999. 'The Making of a Religious Identity - Islam and the state in Uzbekistan , ' Economic and Political Weekly 34 (52): 3649-3652

Kaylan , M. 2006. The Kemalists: Islamic revival and the fate of secular Turkey (New York: Prometheus)

*Robinson , F. 2005. 'Other-Worldly and This-Worldly Islam and the Islamic revival' - A memorial lecture for Wilfred Cantwell Smith. Delivered at the Royal Asiatic Society on 10 April 2003 , Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 14: 47-58 Part 1 Howell , J. 2001. 'Sufism and the Indonesian Islamic Revival' , Journal of Asian Studies 60 (3): 701-729

Ibrahim , A. 1999. 'A theology of Modernity: Hasan al-Turabi and Islamic renewal in Sudan , ' Africa Today , 46 (3-4): 195-222

Nasser , M. 1999. 'The New Veiling Phenomenon - Is it an anorexic equivalent? A polemic , ' Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 9 (6): 407-412

Kramer , M. 1996. Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival: the politics of ideas in the Middle East (New Brunswick , N.J ; London : Transaction Publishers)

Rahnema , A. 1994. Pioneers of Islamic Revival (London: Zed Books)

Zebiri , K. 1993. 'Islamic Revival in Algeria - An Overview , ' Muslim World

83 (3-4): 203-226

Faust K , Gulick J , Gadalla S , Khattab H. 1992. 'Young Women Members of the Islamic Revival Movement in Egypt , Muslim World , 82 (1-2): 55-65

Metcalf , B.. [1982] 2002. Islamic Revival in British India - Deoband , 1860-1900 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press)

 

Essay Question

·        What explains Islamic revival?

 

15. Conclusion and Review