Mark Juergensmeyer's comparative study of religiously framed political violence, published by the University of California Press in 2000. Juergensmeyer, a scholar of religious studies and sociology, examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as one of several cases in which he argues a genuinely religious dimension, distinct from ethnic or national identity alone, has grown more central over time: religious Zionist settlement theology after the 1967 conquest of the West Bank reframed territory in covenantal rather than purely national terms, and the rise of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad since the 1980s cast Palestinian resistance in explicitly Islamic terms as a religious duty. Its strength is a comparative framework drawing on interviews with religious militants across several conflicts. Its limit is that, as a comparative study of several cases, its treatment of any one conflict, including this one, is necessarily less exhaustive than a dedicated history would be.
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A named scholar of religious studies' university press comparative study, drawing on direct interviews with religious militants across several conflicts, though its treatment of any single conflict is necessarily less exhaustive than a dedicated history. NotesCited for the reading of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict's religious dimension as a real and growing addition to its nationalist core, representing one camp in the debate this atlas records rather than resolves.
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AuthorMark Juergensmeyer
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publication Year2000
Source Typeacademic monograph
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