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Religious Resurgence and Politics in the Contemporary World

Religious Resurgence and Politics in the Contemporary World PDF Author: Emile F. Sahliyeh
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791403815
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
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.