Since the 1970s, contrary to the promise of secularization, religion does not decline or get privatized, but takes the trend of global resurgence and politicization. Narrowly speaking, "the global religious politics" is mainly about the change from fundamentalism to terrorism. T…
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The dissertation's opening chapter is a short introduction describing the project's purpose, scope, and thesis. Following a historiographical survey is an attempt to define important terms such as "fundamentalism," "separation," and "conservative dissent." Chapter two is titled …
The standard objection to fundamentalism—that family of views according to which certain propositions are believed to be revealed by God and ipso facto to have complete epistemic authority—is, roughly speaking, that it is unreasonable because it so often conflicts with our best …
The events on 11, September 2001, have perceptibly transformed the conduct of international politics on several dimensions. While most nation-states rushed to clarify their position on the global terrorism debate some were re-evaluating public discourse in light of their own str…
This study explores the rise of organizations during the 1930s and 1940s in American Protestantism known as parachurch organizations. It observes past renewal movements within Protestantism, and the relationship of three prominent parachurch organizations to this stream of Prote…
This dissertation documents and analyzes how different political movements in Algeria have invoked Islam to obtain mass support. This longitudinal study recounts the invocation of this political and cultural resource; it also explains how different political actors with varying …
This dissertation explores the development of political Islam in recent years. Specifically, it tries to explain why in some Muslim countries the state repression of the moderate political Islamist movements was followed by pervasive Islamist violence, whereas in others peaceful…
Observers of political Islam often question the movement's prospects: Will it soon sweep aside discredited governments or is it a spent force? This dissertation explores the confines of political Islam as a system of thought by analyzing the ideological formulations of Islamism …
This dissertation contends that religious conversion in modern India is a multi-faceted phenomenon that reflects a flowering of diverse interests and concerns. It argues that conversion in India is inadequately understood if it is construed merely as a shift from one "ism," or r…
The theoretical perspectives that this dissertation is based on draw primarily from Sahlin's (1976) criticisms of Marxism, Hays' (1994) explanation of the relationship between culture and structure, Weber's (1993) concept of elective affinity, Thomas' (1989) theory of social cha…
In this dissertation I explore the puzzle of why Egyptian secularists, many of whom were in positions of great power both inside and outside the state, have historically moved in an increasingly Islamic direction and failed to legitimize secularism as a discourse on its own term…
In the last two decades, we have seen a significant surge in the number of Islamic fundamentalist movements, and there has not been a concise reason as to why. The main objective of this research is to determine the causes of Islamic fundamentalism, and, in so showing that an Is…