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Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution is a major comparative analysis of fundamentalist movements in cultural and political context, with an emphasis on the contemporary scene. Leading sociologist S. N. Eisenstadt examines the meaning of the global rise of fundamentalism as one very forceful contemporary response to tensions in modernity and the dynamics of civilization. He compares modern fundamentalist movements with the proto-fundamentalist movements which arose in the 'axial civilizations' in pre-modern times; he shows how the great revolutions in Europe which arose in connection with these movements shaped the political and cultural programmes of modernity; and he contrasts post-Second World War Moslem, Jewish and Protestant fundamentalist movements with communal national movements, notably in Asia. The central theme of the book is the distinctively Jacobin features of fundamentalist movements and their ambivalent attitude to tradition: above all their attempts to essentialize tradition in an ideologically totalistic way. Eisenstadt has won the Amalfi book prize.

Beschaving [Moderne ] --- Civilisation moderne --- Civilization [Modern ] --- Counter culture --- Extremism [Political ] --- Extremisme [Politiek ] --- Extrémisme politique --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Politiek extremisme --- Radicalism --- Radicalisme --- Religious fundamentalism --- Civilization, Modern. --- Radicalism. --- Fondamentalisme --- Civilisation moderne et contemporaine --- Political aspects. --- Aspect politique --- -Civilization, Modern --- Extremism, Political --- Political science --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- Fundamentalism, Religious --- Fundamentalist movements, Religious --- Religion --- Political aspects --- History --- Civilization, Modern --- Social movements - History - 20th century. --- Religious fundamentalism - History - 20th century. --- Social Sciences --- Sociology --- fundamentalism --- sectarianism --- revolution --- modernity --- cultural and political contexts --- the dynamics of civilization --- tradition

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This volume brings together several of Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt's essays written over the years on Jewish history and identity. The major argument of the essays follows the Weberian view of Jewish historical experience as that of a distinct civilization, as a distinct Great Religion, the first monotheistic civilization - without, however, accepting many of Weber's concrete analyses. The core of the argument that underlies these essays is, that the best way to understand the Jewish experience is to look on Jews not just as a religious or ethnic group, nation or "people", although they have been all of these, but as bearers of a distinct civilization. These essays examine the historical experience of the Jewish people and communities in ancient medieval and modern times in the framework of such civilizational analysis in which special attention is given to the analysis of Israeli society and to the continual changing place of Israel in a central component of Jewish identity, in line with the different historical experience and collective agendas of the Jewish communities.

Jews --- American Jews --- Jewish Americans --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Civilization, Jewish --- Jewish civilization --- Civilization, Semitic --- Civilization. --- Identity. --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Israel --- Social conditions. --- Politics and government.

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Civilization, Modern --- Comparative civilization. --- Social change. --- Philosophy. --- Civilization, Modern - 20th century --- Civilization, Modern - 1950 --- -Social change --- Civilization, Modern - Philosophy --- Comparative civilization

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