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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aCook, Michael
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245 1 0 _aAncient Religions, Modern Politics :
_bThe Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective /
_cMichael Cook.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tPart One. Identity --
_tIntroduction to Part One --
_t1. Islam and identity --
_t2. Hinduism and identity --
_t3. Catholicism and identity in Latin America --
_tConclusion to Part One --
_tPart Two. Values --
_tIntroduction to Part Two --
_t4. Society --
_t5. Warfare --
_t6. Divine jealousy --
_t7. Polity --
_tConclusion to Part Two --
_tPart Three: Fundamentalism --
_tIntroduction to Part Three --
_t8. Islam and fundamentalism --
_t9. Hinduism and fundamentalism --
_t10. Latin American Catholicism and fundamentalism --
_tConclusion to Part Three --
_tAfterword --
_tAppendix: "Hindu fundamentalism" and the Fundamentalism Project --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
520 _aWhy does Islam play a larger role in contemporary politics than other religions? Is there something about the Islamic heritage that makes Muslims more likely than adherents of other faiths to invoke it in their political life? If so, what is it? Ancient Religions, Modern Politics seeks to answer these questions by examining the roles of Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity in modern political life, placing special emphasis on the relevance-or irrelevance-of their heritages to today's social and political concerns.Michael Cook takes an in-depth, comparative look at political identity, social values, attitudes to warfare, views about the role of religion in various cultural domains, and conceptions of the polity. In all these fields he finds that the Islamic heritage offers richer resources for those engaged in current politics than either the Hindu or the Christian heritages. He uses this finding to explain the fact that, despite the existence of Hindu and Christian counterparts to some aspects of Islamism, the phenomenon as a whole is unique in the world today. The book also shows that fundamentalism-in the sense of a determination to return to the original sources of the religion-is politically more adaptive for Muslims than it is for Hindus or Christians.A sweeping comparative analysis by one of the world's leading scholars of premodern Islam, Ancient Religions, Modern Politics sheds important light on the relationship between the foundational texts of these three great religious traditions and the politics of their followers today.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
650 7 _aRELIGION / Comparative Religion.
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