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Author:   Hartmut Elsenhans ,  Rachid Ouaissa ,  Mary Ann Tétreault ,  Mary Ann Tetreault
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781472448811

ISBN 10:   1472448812
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   28 January 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: new cultural-identitarian political movements in South Asia, the Middle East and Northern Africa, Rachid Ouaissa and Sebastian Schwecke. Section I: Algeria's Islamists in times of political change - an exceptional case?, Rachid Ouaissa; The trivialisation of Hindu nationalism and the reconfiguration of the Indian bourgeoisie, Sebastian Schwecke. Section II: Globalisation and Islamic radicalism in the Arab Gulf region, Mary Ann Tetreault; The economic ideology of Hasan al-Banna and the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood, Ivesa Lubben; The AKP or the success of a hybrid, Gerard Groc; Similarities and differences in the strategies and programmes of the BJP and the Congress in India, Randhir B. Jain; Power games or programmatic evolution in the BJP, Klaus Julian Voll. Section III: Middle classes and new cultural-identitarian political movements: perspectives, Hartmut Elsenhans; How to build a viable economic policy on Islamic foundations: the case of the MSP Party, Algeria, Abdelkrim Dahmen; The Bharatiya Janata Party: identitarianism and governance agenda, Rajvir Sharma. Section IV: Rivalry, failure of the secular nationalists, geography, history: embedding the rising new cultural-identitarian movements in Africa and Asia in the emerging multipolar system, Hartmut Elsenhans. Bibliography; Index.

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'This volume succeeds in the very difficult task of offering sophisticated and balanced insights into the tensions, patterns, and trajectories of politicized religious movements. This collection is all the more impressive given the fear many people have of such groups. Students of politicized religious movements, and of contemporary global politics, should read this book.' Bob Denemark, University of Delaware, USA 'Moving away from conventional explanations on the politics of religious fundamentalisms, this volume provides a refreshing and innovative account of the New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in South Asia, the Middle East, and Northern Africa. Weaving nationalism, secularism, political economy and class structure in a comparative tapestry, the contributors convincingly and boldly deconstruct how and why these so-called radical movements - from Hindu Nationalism to Islamic Brotherhood - have taken a moderate turn.' Pralay Kanungo, Leiden University, The Netherlands

'This volume succeeds in the very difficult task of offering sophisticated and balanced insights into the tensions, patterns, and trajectories of politicized religious movements. This collection is all the more impressive given the fear many people have of such groups. Students of politicized religious movements, and of contemporary global politics, should read this book.' Bob Denemark, University of Delaware, USA 'Moving away from conventional explanations on the politics of religious fundamentalisms, this volume provides a refreshing and innovative account of the New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in South Asia, the Middle East, and Northern Africa. Weaving nationalism, secularism, political economy and class structure in a comparative tapestry, the contributors convincingly and boldly deconstruct how and why these so-called radical movements - from Hindu Nationalism to Islamic Brotherhood - have taken a moderate turn.' Pralay Kanungo, Leiden University, the Netherlands

a This volume succeeds in the very difficult task of offering sophisticated and balanced insights into the tensions, patterns, and trajectories of politicized religious movements. This collection is all the more impressive given the fear many people have of such groups. Students of politicized religious movements, and of contemporary global politics, should read this book.a (TM) Bob Denemark, University of Delaware, USA a Moving away from conventional explanations on the politics of religious fundamentalisms, this volume provides a refreshing and innovative account of the New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in South Asia, the Middle East, and Northern Africa. Weaving nationalism, secularism, political economy and class structure in a comparative tapestry, the contributors convincingly and boldly deconstruct how and why these so-called radical movements - from Hindu Nationalism to Islamic Brotherhood - have taken a moderate turn.a (TM) Pralay Kanungo, Leiden University, the Netherlands

'This volume succeeds in the very difficult task of offering sophisticated and balanced insights into the tensions, patterns, and trajectories of politicized religious movements. This collection is all the more impressive given the fear many people have of such groups. Students of politicized religious movements, and of contemporary global politics, should read this book.' Bob Denemark, University of Delaware, USA 'Moving away from conventional explanations on the politics of religious fundamentalisms, this volume provides a refreshing and innovative account of the New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in South Asia, the Middle East, and Northern Africa. Weaving nationalism, secularism, political economy and class structure in a comparative tapestry, the contributors convincingly and boldly deconstruct how and why these so-called radical movements - from Hindu Nationalism to Islamic Brotherhood - have taken a moderate turn.' Pralay Kanungo, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Author Information

Hartmut Elsenhans is Professor Emeritus at Leipzig University, Germany. He specialises in the economy and the history of the capitalist world system, the theory of development and underdevelopment, and the political economy of state classes and new social movements in rent based societies. Prof. Dr. Rachid Ouaissa teaches politics of the Near and Middle East at the Center of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Philipps-Universitat Marburg. His main fields of research are political, economic and societal developments in the Near- and Middle East since the nineteenth century, the rise of Islamist Movements in the region, the EU's Mediterranean policy, the foreign policy of Arab countries and questions of Rentier states. Since February 2013 he is project manager of the project funded by the BMBF Research Network: 'Re-configurations history, memory and transformation processes in the Middle East and North Africa' Sebastian Schwecke is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Gottingen, Germany. He specializes on identity-based politics in India and Pakistan, entrepreneurship, brokers and the everyday state in India, and informal financial markets in India. He has taught South Asian politics at Leipzig University and Heidelberg University, Germany. Mary Ann Tetreault has taught at Old Dominion University, Iowa State University, and is presently the Una Chapman Cox Distinguished Professor of International Affairs Emerita at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She has conducted field-work and/or taught abroad in Vietnam, Japan, Slovakia, Syria, Turkey, Kuwait and Bahrain.

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