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Contents

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List of Contributors

Introduction: Fundamentalism, Politics and History: The State, Globalisation and Political Ideologies -- Ulrika Martensson, Jennifer Bailey, Priscilla Ringrose, Asbjorn Dyrendal

Part I - State and Nation Formation

1. The Quran, the Consitution, 'the Natural': Divisive Concepts within Scholarly Islam -- Ulrika Martensson

2. Fundamentalism, Ultimate Truth, Absolutism, Inerrancy and Armed Conflict in Sri Lanka -- Peter Schalk

3. The Turn to Fundamentalism: The Significance of Religious Ideology in State-Formation and Nation-Building in South Asia -- Michael Schied

4. Theravada Buddhism as a Solution to Power Legitimisation in Contemporary Myanmar -- Larisa Tsekhanova

5. Waiting for the Twelfth Imam: Contemporary Apocalyptic Shiite Literature and Speculation in Lebanon and Iran -- David Cook

6. The Serbian Orthodox Church: Between Traditionalism and Fundamentalism -- Milan Vukomanovic

7. Exploring Contemporary (Christian) Religious Fundamentalism: The Contest for Public

Part II - Practices and Ideologies

8. The Spark of Revolution: Charismatic Authority in Sayyid Qutb's Qur'anic Exegesis -- John Moller Larsen

9. Conspiracy Theories as Conduits of Fundamentalist Ideologies: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- Salim Turkay Nefes

10. 'Every man and Woman is God's Caliph': The Rise of the Islamic Democratic Mainstream -- Mattias Gardell

11. The Islamic Action Front: Democracy, Islamism and Neo-Fundamentalism -- Birgitte Moe Rolandsen

12. Fundamentalism and the Baha'i community: Definitions and Social Dynamics -- Moojan Momen

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