ISBN:
9780511520822
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xi, 280 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge cultural social studies
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Erscheint auch als
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DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-1999
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Politik
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Radikalismus
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Religious fundamentalism / Political aspects
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Civilization, Modern
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Radicalism
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Soziale Bewegung
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Vergleichende Soziologie
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Fundamentalismus
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Moderne
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Nationalismus
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Moderne
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Fundamentalismus
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Vergleichende Soziologie
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Nationalismus
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Geschichte 1900-1999
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Fundamentalismus
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Geschichte 1900-1999
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Soziale Bewegung
;
Geschichte 1900-1999
Abstract:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Heterodoxies, sectarianism, and utopianism in the constitution of proto-fundamentalist movements
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The great revolutions and the transformation of sectarian utopianism in the cultural and political program of modernity
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Fundamentalism as a modern Jacobin anti-modern utopia and heterodoxy
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Historical setting and variability of fundamentalist movements
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Some considerations on modernity
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511520822
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511520822
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