FUNDAMENTALISM, SECTARIANISM, AND REVOLUTION by S. N. Eisenstadt ( 9780511520822 )

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FUNDAMENTALISM, SECTARIANISM, AND REVOLUTION
THE JACOBIN DIMENSION OF MODERNITY

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ISBN 10:

0511520824

ISBN 13:

9780511520822

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 September, 2009

Series:

Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

Description:

Leading comparative sociologist's major statement on the relationship between modernity, revolution and religion.

Synopsis:

Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution is a major comparative analysis of fundamentalist movements in cultural and political context, with an emphasis on the contemporary scene. Leading sociologist S. N. Eisenstadt examines the meaning of the global rise of fundamentalism as one very forceful contemporary response to tensions in modernity and the dynamics of civilization. He compares modern fundamentalist movements with the proto-fundamentalist movements which arose in the 'axial civilizations' in pre-modern times; he shows how the great revolutions in Europe which arose in connection with these movements shaped the political and cultural programmes of modernity; and he contrasts post-Second World War Moslem, Jewish and Protestant fundamentalist movements with communal national movements, notably in Asia. The central theme of the book is the distinctively Jacobin features of fundamentalist movements and their ambivalent attitude to tradition: above all their attempts to essentialize tradition in an ideologically totalistic way. Eisenstadt has won the Amalfi book prize.

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