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Ancient religions, modern politics

the Islamic case in comparative perspective

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Michael A. Cook
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An edition of Ancient religions, modern politics (2014)

Ancient religions, modern politics

the Islamic case in comparative perspective

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"Why 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"--

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Table of Contents

Part 1. Identity
Islam and identity
Hinduism and identity
Catholicism and identity in Latin America
Part 2. Values
Society
Warfare
Divine jealousy
Polity
Part 3. Fundamentalism
Islam and fundamentalism
Hinduism and fundamentalism
Latin American Catholicism and fundamentalism.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-515) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
297.2/72
Library of Congress
BP173.7 .C665 2014, BP173.7

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Pagination
xx, 541 pages
Number of pages
541

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28392095M
ISBN 10
0691144907
ISBN 13
9780691144900
LCCN
2013039833
OCLC/WorldCat
861666230

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