ISBN:
9780511520822
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 280 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s).
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Rezensiert in Martin, David Fundamentalism, sectarianism, and revolution. The Jacobin dimension of modernity. By S. N. Eisenstadt. (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies.) Pp. xiv+280. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. £40 (cloth), £14.95 (paper). 0 521 64184 5; 0 521 64586 7 2001
Series Statement:
Cambridge cultural social studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Aizenshṭadṭ, Shemuʾel Noaḥ, 1923 - 2010 Fundamentalism, sectarianism, and revolution
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DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Religious fundamentalism Political aspects.
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Civilization, Modern.
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Radicalism.
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Radicalism
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Civilization, Modern
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Religious fundamentalism Political aspects
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Religious fundamentalism ; Political aspects
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Civilization, Modern
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Radicalism
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Moderne
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Fundamentalismus
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Kulturvergleich
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Heterodoxies, sectarianism, and utopianism in the constitution of proto-fundamentalist movements -- The great revolutions and the transformation of sectarian utopianism in the cultural and political program of modernity -- Fundamentalism as a modern Jacobin anti-modern utopia and heterodoxy -- the totalistic reconstruction of tradition -- Historical setting and variability of fundamentalist movements -- Some considerations on modernity.
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511520822
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