Fundamentalism and Charismatic Movements, (4 Volume Set)

The term ‘Fundamentalism’ carries a wide range of meanings, some of them pejorative. Here it is used to refer to what the French call ‘integrism’, meaning a religious code which encompasses and governs with its prescriptions the entire private and public life of individuals and the collectivity. The prime examples in the contemporary world are Muslim renewal; Christian evangelical and charismatic churches, sects, and tendencies; and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism.

These three varieties of movement represent radical departures from the traditions out of which they have grown. These new forms can be characterized in terms of their ability to plug into local cultural practices and incorporate them without theorizing; ability to provide a framework for coping with serious social ills among the marginalized; ability to create transcultural communities of individuals without regard to prior political, linguistic, or ethnic frontiers; obsessive attention to the control of sexuality, especially female; belief in the literal truth of every word in the holy text; and their emphasis on conversion as a crisis and rupture in the life of individuals.

Even in its early days, Pentecostalism was a multicultural, multi-ethnic movement, drawing on black Americans, and the Mexican, European, and Asian migrant communities in America for its following. Today, in some countries (such as Nigeria and Ghana) the appeal seems to be more to the middle-class groups, while in others, such as in Latin America and the Philippines, it is most successful among the urban poor and among indigenous peoples, and represents a profound change after five centuries of a virtual Catholic monopoly.

In Islam and Judaism an erudite strand of learning has co-existed with a proliferation of healers and seers. Modern Jewish fundamentalists are however overwhelmingly focused on texts, and although their heritage in Eastern Europe has a strong element of ecstatic prayer, that has tended to take second place in the post-Holocaust era to an institutionalization of learning. In Islam, likewise, the renewal movements, led usually by lay people rather than clergy (except in Iran), focus on the text of the Qur’an and are hostile to mystical heritage embodied by Sufism.

This new, four-volume collection from Routledge makes available a range of materials which represent: (a) the most important recent analytical and descriptive contributions to the subject; (b) some doctrinal and historical texts; and (c) a representative coverage of the subject by theme and geographical area. It is sure to be welcomed by scholars and students as an indispensable resource for reference and research.

Volume I

Part 1 : Issues of Definition, General Theories, and Historical Context
Chapter 1 : Fundamentalism as a Modern Jacobin Anti-Modern Utopia and Heterodoxy : The Totalistic Reconstruction of Tradition : Fundamentalism, Sectarianism and Revolution : The Jacobin Dimension of Modernity
Chapter 2 : The Clash of Civilizations and The Remaking of World Order
Chapter 3 : Fundamentalism and Globalism : Third World Quarterly
Chapter 4 : History in The Fundamentalist Imagination : Journal of American History
Chapter 5 : The New Religious Politics : Where, When, and Why Do "Fundamentalisms" Appear? : Comparative Studies in Society and History
Chapter 6 : Pentecostals : The World Their Parish
Chapter 7 : Why Strict Churches Are Strong : American Journal of Sociology
Chapter 8 : Representing Fundamentalism : The Problem of The Repugnant Cultural OTher : Social Research
Chapter 9 : Islam and Social Movements : Methodological Reflections, Islam, Politics and Social Movements
Chapter 10 : Fundamentalism and The Resurgence of Religion
Chapter 11 : Fundamentalism
Chapter 12 : Millennial Capitalism : First Thoughts on a Second Coming : Public Culture
Chapter 13 : Rupture and Reconstruction : The Transformation of Contemporary Orthodoxy
Chapter 14 : Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and The Docile Agent : Some Reflections on The Egyptian Islamic Revival : Cultural Anthropology
Chapter 15 : Islamism and Colonial Secularism : A Relationship of Creativity?), Religion and The Political Imagination
Chapter 16 : Premodern, Antimodern, or Postmodern? Islamic and Western Critiques of Modernity : Review of Politics

Volume II

Part 2 : Fundamentalism, Modernity, and Globalization
Chapter 17 : The Politics of Conviction : Faith on The Neo-liberal Frontier : Social Analysis
Chapter 18 : Lubavitch : A Contemporary Messianic Movement : Journal of Contemporary Religion
Chapter 19 : Globalization and The Politics of Religious Knowledge : Pluralizing Authority in The Muslim World : Theory, Culture & Society
Chapter 20 : Islam in Mali in The Neo-Liberal Era : African Affairs
Chapter 21 : The Global Diffusion and Westernization of Neo-Hindu Movements : Siddha Yoga and Sivananda Centres : Religions of South Asia
Chapter 22 : Life Tradition and Book Tradition in The Development of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism : Judaism Viewed from Within and from Without : Anthropological Studies
Chapter 23 : Fundamentalism’s Encounters with Citizenship : The Haredim in Israel : Citizenship Studies
Chapter 24 : Revolution Without Movement, Movement Without Revolution : Comparing Islamic Activism in Iran and Egypt : Comparative Studies in Society and History
Chapter 25 : Madrasa at Deoband : Model for Religious-Education in Modern India : Modern Asian Studies
Chapter 26 : Muslim Cosmopolitanism : Contemporary Practice and Social Theory, Handbook of Globalization
Chapter 27 : The Ethics of Listening : Cassette-Sermon Audition in Contemporary Egypt : American Ethnologist
Chapter 28 : Interpreting The Qur’an and The Constitution : Similarities in The Use of Text, Tradition, and Reason in Islamic and American Jurisprudence : Cardozo Law Review
Chapter 29 : Spiritual Economies : Islam and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Indonesia : Cultural Anthropology
Chapter 30 : Women’s Agency Within Authoritarian Communalism : The Rashtasevika Samiti and Rajanmabhoomi, Hindus and OThers : The Question of Identity in India Today
Chapter 31 : Feminist "Selves" and Feminism’s "OThers" : Feminist Representations of Jamaat-e-Islami Women in Pakistan : Feminist Review

Volume III

Part 3 : Charismatic and Conversion Movements
Chapter 32 : The Charismatic Renewal and The Culture of Narcissism : Charisma and Community : A Study of Religious Commitment Within The Charismatic Renewal
Chapter 33 : Fundamentalism Among Serpent-Handling Sects : The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism
Chapter 34 : The Cultural Revolution and The Emergence of Pentecostal-style Protestantism in China : Journal of Contemporary Religion
Chapter 35 : The Socialization of The Gifts of Tongues and Healing in Mexican Pentecostalism : Journal of Contemporary Religion
Chapter 36 : The Tablighi Jama’at, Transnational Islam, and The Transformation of The Self Between SouThern Thailand and South Asia : Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and The Middle East
Chapter 37 : The British Black Pentecostal "Revival" : Identity and Belief in The "New" Nigerian Churches : Ethnic and Racial Studies
Chapter 38 : Gypsy/Roma Diasporas : A Comparative Perspective : Social Anthropology
Chapter 39 : Why is The Black Evangelical Movement Growing in Brazil? : Journal of Latin American Studies
Chapter 40 : Evangelical Protestantism and Indigenous Populations : Bulletin of Latin American Research
Chapter 41 : African Gifts of The Spirit : Fundamentalism and The Rise of The Born-Again Movement in Africa, Fundamentalism : Church and Society
Chapter 42 : "Make a Complete Break With The Past" : Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse : Journal of Religion in Africa
Chapter 43 : Mediating The Global and The Local in Nigerian Pentecostalism : Journal of Religion in Africa
Chapter 44 : The Universal Church of The Kingdom of God : A Brazilian Church Finds Success in SouThern Africa : Journal of Religion in Africa
Chapter 45 : Pentecostalism Beyond Belief : Trust and Democracy in a Malawian Township : Africa : Journal of The International African Institute
Chapter 46 : The Growth and Development of Tablighi Jamaat in India, Travellers in Faith : Studies of The Tablighi Jama’at as a Transnational Islamic Movement for Faith Renewal
Chapter 47 : Refashioning Islam : Elite Women and Piety in Bangladesh : Contemporary Islam

Volume IV

Part 4 : Fundamentalism, Politics, and Everyday Life
Chapter 48 : Islamism and The Politics of Fun : Public Culture
Chapter 49 : Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice : An Economist’s View of Ultra-Orthodox Jews : Quarterly Journal of Economics
Chapter 50 : Power, Boundaries and Institutions : Marriage in Ultra-Orthodox Judaism : European Journal of Sociology
Chapter 51 : Evangelicals and Democracy in Brazil : A Study of The Leading Politicians, Evangelicals and Democracy in Latin America
Chapter 52 : Three Models of Religious Violence : The Case of Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Fundamentalism and The State : Remaking Polities, Economies and Militance
Chapter 53 : Genesis and The Future of Suicide Terrorism : Science
Chapter 54 : Terrorism and Islamism : Differences, Dynamics and Dilemmas : Global Business and Economic Review
Chapter 55 : The Identity Christian Movement : Ideology of Domestic Terrorism : Journal of Black Studies
Chapter 56 : Religious Extremism : The Good, The Bad and The Deadly : Public Choice
Chapter 57 : Communicating Authority, Consuming Authority : Jewish Orthodox Outreach Literature and its Reading Public, Religion, Media and The Pubic Sphere
Chapter 58 : A Mirror to The Future : The Media, Evangelicals and Politics in Brazil, Religion, Media and The Pubic Sphere
Chapter 59 : Evangelical Protestantism and Democratization in Contemporary Latin America and Asia : Democratization
Chapter 60 : Hindu Nationalism in The US : Changing Configurations of Political Practice : Ethnic and Racial Studies
Chapter 61 : Women, Piety and Practice : A Study of Women and Religious Practice in Malaysia : Contemporary Islam