Religion in Global Civil Society

by Mark Juergensmeyer

Book Overview

The extraordinary changes in world society at the beginning of the 21st century have involved religion to a degree that would have amazed earlier observers of modernity. Within the past decade religion has been associated with some of the world's most strident forms of political encounter, including new movements of nationalism, the clerical leadership of political sects, and the religiously motivated acts of terrorism. Religion seems to be trying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195188357
• ISBN13: 9780195188356
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"