Will the 1990s become the decade of a new Cold War between the religious Third World and the secular West? Mark Juergensmeyer paints a provocative picture of the new religious revolutionaries in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Impassioned Muslim leaders in Egypt, Palestine, and Algeria, political rab- bis in Israel, militant Sikhs in India, and tri- umphant Cathol…
Juergensmeyer’s book is something of a Gandhian tour de force—a careful analysis and series of applications of Gandhi’s concept of satyagraha to everyday situations of conflict. A crisply written and cogently argued little manual, this book explores the practical implications of satyagraha (truth force). It is a manual of instruction in the best sense: a popular reassessment of Gandhian c…