Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World: Critical Social and Political Issues

From: Journal of Third World Studies | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: Jones, Garth N | Copyright information

Saha, Santosh C. (ed.). Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World: Critical Social and Political Issues. New York: Lexington Books, 2004. 304 pp.

A collage! As a student with a long interest in religion and development at home and abroad, this was my reading of the edited book under review. It comprises a crude art form where bits and pieces of scholarship on religious fundamentalism are assembled together in incongruous relationship for suggestive effect. The symbolic feature...

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