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During the 1920s, Protestant fundamentalists throughout the United States campaigned to ban the teaching of evolutionary theory from public and private schools. In addition, many fundamentalists struggled to pass laws requiring daily Bible reading in all public schools. These sa…

This dissertation is an anthropological investigation of the political culture of Indonesian Islamist students. There has been a tendency among Western analysts and particularly policy makers to assume that religious activism and democratic principles are incompatible, that with…

Western foreign policy makers do not fare well with Islamic fundamentalist groups. Why? In this thesis, I will argue that Islamic fundamentalists pose such difficulties for Western governments not because the Islamic fundamentalists are terrorists prone to violence, for they are…