ENTERING RELIGIOUS MINDS
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 both conversational and rigorous, the book demonstrates for students, researchers, and journalists the relevance of religious studies to political science, sociology, and anthropology. It is particularly well suited to upper-level courses at the intersection of religion and the social sciences.
Mona Kanwal Sheikh, PhD in Political Science, is Senior Researcher and Head of the International Security Research Unit at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mark Juergensmeyer is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, Affiliate Professor of Religious Studies, and Founding Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
In Therapy in the Age of Neuroscience, psychotherapist Peter Afford boldly integrates the voices of contemporary neuroscientists into a therapist-relevant narrative that interlaces psychological constructs including diagnostic features with a knowledge of the relevant role that specific neural structures play in movements, thoughts and feelings. Through the lens of a therapist, the reader is informed how a knowledge of neuroscience can inform, support and at times transform treatment models relevant to mental health.
Stephen W Porges, PhD,, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine
We cannot fully understand religious violence without taking the inside perspective into account the worldview as perceived by the believer within its particular social context. This unique and important book provides a useful interdisciplinary guide for scholars of religion, political science, and sociology on how to emphatically understand and critically analyze the religious experience. By putting the religious imageries, ideas, justifications, and practices as the focal points of the analysis, the book provides novel ways to bridge the inside and outside approach to the study of religion in general, and religious violence, in particular.
Isak Svensson, Uppsala University, author of Ending Holy Wars: Religion and Conflict Resolution in Civil Wars and co-editor of International Relations and Religion
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Sheikh, Mona Kanwal, author.
Title: Entering religious minds : the social study of radical worldviews / Mona Kanwal Sheikh and Mark Juergensmeyer.
Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Taylor & Francis, 2019. |Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019013035| ISBN 9781138603929 (hardback) |ISBN 9781138603936 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780429468810 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Violence--Religious aspects. | Religions.
Classification: LCC BL65.V55 S344 2019 | DDC 306.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019013035
ISBN: 978-1-138-60392-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-60393-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-46881-0 (ebk)
Ariel Glucklich is Professor of Theology at Georgetown University where he teaches Hinduism and Psychology of Religion. His essay Route 40 is based on a recently published book called Everyday Mysticism: A Contemplative Community at Work in the Desert which was published by Yale University Press in 2017. This work continues a long-running project of understanding the psychological and social dimensions of religious practices (hurting, work, enjoyment) that date back to Sacred Pain (Oxford University Press, 2001), Dying for Heaven (HarperCollins 2009) and will continue with Religion and Pleasure (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Julie Ingersoll is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Florida. She teaches and writes about religion in American culture and politics. She is the author of Building Gods Kingdom; inside the world of Christian Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Evangelical Christian Women; war stories in the gender battles (New York University Press, 2003). Her current projects include Missionary Position: Regulating Sex as a Technique for Conversion and Persecuted! The battle to define Religious Freedom in America.
Michael Jerryson is Professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University. His research interests pertain to religion and identity, particularly with regard to gender, race, and class. Publications include: Buddhist Fury: Religion and Violence in Southern Thailand (Oxford University Press, 2011), If You Meet the Buddha on the Road: Buddhism, Politics, and Violence (Oxford University Press, 2018), edited the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism, and co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Buddhist Warfare (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara, where he was founding director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies. He is author or editor of over 20 books including the award-winning Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press, 2000), based on interviews with religious activists from Hamas and al Qaeda to Buddhist militants and the Christian militia. His most recent book is the co-authored God in the Tumult of the Global Square (University of California Press, 2015).
Sara Kamali is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford and a Senior Member of St Antonys College. Her academic work focuses on global justice and conflict. Her research includes the areas of ethnic and religious violence, cyber terrorism, and intersectional equity.
Margo Kitts is Professor and Coordinator of Religious Studies and East-West Classical Studies at Hawaii Pacific University on Oahu. She is the author of over three dozen articles on religion and violence and author or editor of seven books, most recently Elements of Ritual and Violence
