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Ancient Religions, Modern Politics - The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective (Paperback)
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Ancient Religions, Modern Politics - The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective (Paperback)
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Why does Islam play a larger role in contemporary politics than
other religions? Is there something about the Islamic heritage that
makes Muslims more likely than adherents of other faiths to invoke
it in their political life? If so, what is it? Ancient Religions,
Modern Politics seeks to answer these questions by examining the
roles of Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity in modern political
life, placing special emphasis on the relevance--or irrelevance--of
their heritages to today's social and political concerns. Michael
Cook takes an in-depth, comparative look at political identity,
social values, attitudes to warfare, views about the role of
religion in various cultural domains, and conceptions of the
polity. In all these fields he finds that the Islamic heritage
offers richer resources for those engaged in current politics than
either the Hindu or the Christian heritages. He uses this finding
to explain the fact that, despite the existence of Hindu and
Christian counterparts to some aspects of Islamism, the phenomenon
as a whole is unique in the world today. The book also shows that
fundamentalism--in the sense of a determination to return to the
original sources of the religion--is politically more adaptive for
Muslims than it is for Hindus or Christians. A sweeping comparative
analysis by one of the world's leading scholars of premodern Islam,
Ancient Religions, Modern Politics sheds important light on the
relationship between the foundational texts of these three great
religious traditions and the politics of their followers today.
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