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  • Terror in the Mind of God, Fourth Edition

    The Global Rise of Religious Violence

    by Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    Series Book 13 - Comparative Studies in Religion and Society
    Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism? Why has the rediscovery of religion’s power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way? What, if anything, can be done about it?Terror in the Mind of God, now in its fourth edition, answers these questions and more. Thoroughly revised and expanded, the book analyzes in detail terrorism related to almost all the world’s major ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Why God Needs War and War Needs God

    by Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    For decades, Mark Juergensmeyer has been studying the rise of religious violence around the world, including groups like ISIS and Christian militias that have been involved in acts of terrorism. Over the years he came to realize that war is the central image in the worldview of virtually every religious movement engaged in violent acts. Behind the moral justification of using violence are images ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • When God Stops Fighting

    How Religious Violence Ends

    by Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    A gripping study of how religiously motivated violence and militant movements end, from the perspectives of those most deeply involved.Mark Juergensmeyer is arguably the globe’s leading expert on religious violence, and for decades his books have helped us understand the worlds and worldviews of those who take up arms in the name of their faith. But even the most violent of movements, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    God at War

    A Meditation on Religion and Warfare

    by Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    Narrated by Tom Parks ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 41 min

    For decades, Mark Juergensmeyer has been studying the rise of religious violence around the world, including groups like ISIS and Christian militias that have been involved in acts of terrorism. Over the years he came to realize that war is the central image in the worldview of virtually every religious movement engaged in violent acts. Behind the moral justification of using violence are images ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • God in the Tumult of the Global Square

    Religion in Global Civil Society

    by Mark Juergensmeyer, Dinah Griego, John Soboslai ...
    How is religion changing in the twenty-first century? In the global era, religion has leapt onto the world stage, often in contradictory ways. Some religious activists are antagonistic and engage in protests, violent acts, and political challenges. Others are positive and help to shape an emerging transnational civil society. In addition, a new global religion may be in the making, providing a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Causes and Consequences of Group Violence

    From Bullies to Terrorists

    by Jeanne Chang, Alec Clott, Premakumara de Silva, Siri Hettige, David Kennedy, Lindsay Kahle, Christian Matheis, Atte Oksanen, Donna Pankhurst, Anthony A. Peguero, Virginia Roach, Wenona Rymond-Richmond, Pekka Räsänen, Michelle Sutherland, Tharindi Udalagama, Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    The Causes and Consequences of Group Violence: From Bullies to Terrorists offers a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation of the causes and consequences of violence, ranging from bullying and hate crimes to revolutions, genocide, and acts of terrorism. Editors James Hawdon, John Ryan, and Mark Lucht bring together empirical investigations of these specific types of violence as well as ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Buddhist Warfare

    by Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    Though traditionally regarded as a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side. On multiple occasions over the past fifteen centuries, Buddhist leaders have sanctioned violence, and even war. The eight essays in this book focus on a variety of Buddhist traditions, from antiquity to the present, and show that Buddhist organizations have used religious images and rhetoric to support military ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Buddhist Warfare

    by Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    Though traditionally regarded as a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side. On multiple occasions over the past fifteen centuries, Buddhist leaders have sanctioned violence, and even war. The eight essays in this book focus on a variety of Buddhist traditions, from antiquity to the present, and show that Buddhist organizations have used religious images and rhetoric to support military ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies

    Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Manfred B. Steger, Saskia Sassen ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies provides an overview of the emerging field of global studies. Since the end of the Cold War, globalization has been reshaping the modern world, and an array of new scholarship has risen to make sense of it in its various transnational manifestations-including economic, social, cultural, ideological, technological, environmental, and in new communications. The ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Entering Religious Minds

    The Social Study of Worldviews

    Edited by Mona Kanwal Sheikh, Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    Led by Mona Kanwal Sheikh and Mark Juergensmeyer, nine authors journey into the worlds of unusual, sometimes violent religious groups. Together, these original first-person contributions provide an integrated, problem-solving approach to field research in religious extremism, illustrating ground-breaking methods in gaining access to their subjects’ worldviews. In a narrative style that is at once ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Thinking Globally

    A Global Studies Reader

    Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer ...
    In this accessible text, Mark Juergensmeyer, a pioneer in global studies, provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of global studies from regional, topical, and theoretical perspectives. Each of the twenty compact chapters in Thinking Globally features Juergensmeyer’s own lucid introduction to the key topics and offers brief excerpts from major writers in those areas. The chapters ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence

    Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts ...
    An anthology that examines the historical and contemporary relationship between religion and violenceThis groundbreaking anthology provides the most comprehensive overview for understanding the fascinating relationship between religion and violence—historically, culturally, and in the contemporary world. Bringing together writings from scholarly and religious traditions, it is the first volume to ... Read more

    $26.69 USD