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  • Terror in the Mind of God, Fourth Edition

    The Global Rise of Religious Violence

    by Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    Series Book 13 - Comparative Studies in Religion and Society
    Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism? Why has the rediscovery of religion’s power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way? What, if anything, can be done about it?Terror in the Mind of God, now in its fourth edition, answers these questions and more. Thoroughly revised and expanded, the book analyzes in detail terrorism related to almost all the world’s major ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • God in the Tumult of the Global Square

    Religion in Global Civil Society

    by Mark Juergensmeyer, Dinah Griego, John Soboslai ...
    How is religion changing in the twenty-first century? In the global era, religion has leapt onto the world stage, often in contradictory ways. Some religious activists are antagonistic and engage in protests, violent acts, and political challenges. Others are positive and help to shape an emerging transnational civil society. In addition, a new global religion may be in the making, providing a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    God at War

    A Meditation on Religion and Warfare

    by Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    Narrated by Tom Parks ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 41 min

    For decades, Mark Juergensmeyer has been studying the rise of religious violence around the world, including groups like ISIS and Christian militias that have been involved in acts of terrorism. Over the years he came to realize that war is the central image in the worldview of virtually every religious movement engaged in violent acts. Behind the moral justification of using violence are images ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why God Needs War and War Needs God

    by Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    For decades, Mark Juergensmeyer has been studying the rise of religious violence around the world, including groups like ISIS and Christian militias that have been involved in acts of terrorism. Over the years he came to realize that war is the central image in the worldview of virtually every religious movement engaged in violent acts. Behind the moral justification of using violence are images ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • When God Stops Fighting

    How Religious Violence Ends

    by Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    A gripping study of how religiously motivated violence and militant movements end, from the perspectives of those most deeply involved.Mark Juergensmeyer is arguably the globe’s leading expert on religious violence, and for decades his books have helped us understand the worlds and worldviews of those who take up arms in the name of their faith. But even the most violent of movements, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Thinking Globally

    A Global Studies Reader

    Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    In this accessible text, Mark Juergensmeyer, a pioneer in global studies, provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of global studies from regional, topical, and theoretical perspectives. Each of the twenty compact chapters in Thinking Globally features Juergensmeyer’s own lucid introduction to the key topics and offers brief excerpts from major writers in those areas. The chapters ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Religion in Global Civil Society

    Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    The extraordinary changes in world society at the beginning of the 21st century have involved religion to a degree that would have amazed earlier observers of modernity. Within the past decade religion has been associated with some of the world's most strident forms of political encounter, including new movements of nationalism, the clerical leadership of political sects, and the religiously ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World

    Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Religion
    How is symbolic violence related to the real acts of religious violence around the modern world? The authors of this book, first published in 1992, explore this question with reference to some of the most volatile religious and political conflicts of the day: Hezbollah in Lebanon, Sikhs in India, militant Jewish groups in Israel, and Muslim movements from the Middle East to Indonesia. In addition ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Global Religions

    An Introduction

    Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    Can Islam be located on a map? Is Europe the center of the Christian world? Is India a Hindu nation? While decades ago these questions were often answered in the affirmative, the truth has never been that simple. Not only are adherents of particular faiths spread across the globe, but there are many variations of a particular faith practiced side by side. This has only become more true in recent ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence

    Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts ...
    An anthology that examines the historical and contemporary relationship between religion and violenceThis groundbreaking anthology provides the most comprehensive overview for understanding the fascinating relationship between religion and violence—historically, culturally, and in the contemporary world. Bringing together writings from scholarly and religious traditions, it is the first volume to ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Buddhist Warfare

    by Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    Though traditionally regarded as a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side. On multiple occasions over the past fifteen centuries, Buddhist leaders have sanctioned violence, and even war. The eight essays in this book focus on a variety of Buddhist traditions, from antiquity to the present, and show that Buddhist organizations have used religious images and rhetoric to support military ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Buddhist Warfare

    by Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    Though traditionally regarded as a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side. On multiple occasions over the past fifteen centuries, Buddhist leaders have sanctioned violence, and even war. The eight essays in this book focus on a variety of Buddhist traditions, from antiquity to the present, and show that Buddhist organizations have used religious images and rhetoric to support military ... Read more

    $43.19 USD