Required Readings & Selected Bibliography for The Sociology of Holy War

 

*      Required

*      Excerpts from Clifford Geertz’s “Religion as a Cultural System”

*      GRIFFIN-New Pearl Harbor

 

 

*     Selected Bibliography of Scholarly (Sociological, Historical, Religious Studies) Articles on Religion

*      “The Holiness of Jerusalem: Asset or Burden?” by Karen Armstrong

*      “The Last Crusade: British Propaganda 1917-1918,” by Eitan bar Yosef

*      “Max Weber and World Denying Love,” by Robert Bellah

*      “Charisma and Religious Innovation,” by Peter Berger

*      “Religion as Opposition: A Gramscian Analysis,” by Dwight Billings

*      “The Hajj: Sacred and Secular,” by Carol Delaney

*      “Collective Violence as Social Control,” by Roberta Senechal de la Roche

*      “Conceptualization of Terrorism,” by Jack Gibbs

*      “The Sacred Heart and the Diocese of Nantes,” by Raymond Jonas

*      “Max Weber’s Analysis of the Rise of Monotheism,” by Steven Kalberg

*      “Max Weber’s Types of Rationality,” by Steven Kalberg

*      “Rationalization of Action in Max Weber's Sociology of Religion,” by Steven Kalberg

*      “Rival Empires: Islam and Spirit Posession,” by J. Lorand Matory

*      “Religion and Revolutionary Beliefs in Weber,” by Guenther Roth

*      “Clausewitz and the Sociology of War,” by Ian Roxborough

*      “Militant and Submissive Religions,” by Eugene Schoenfeld

*      “Islam and Ideology: Towards a Typology,” by William E. Shepard

*      “Religion and the Rise of Liberal Democratic Ideology in 17th Century England,” by David Zaret

 

*      Selected Bibliography of Journalistic Articles on Religion

*      “Jihadis in the Hood: Race, Urban Islam, and the War on Terror,” by Hisham Aidi

*      “Searching for Answers: Gaza's Suicide Bombers,” by Lamis Andoni

*      “No Longer Invisible: Arab and Muslim Exclusion,” by Louise Cainkar

*      “Islam and Theology of Power,” by Khaled Abou El Fadl

*      “Afghanistan in the Balance,” by Patricia Grossman

*      “Difficulties of Regime Removal in Iraq,” by Faleh A. Jabar

*      “Conflict and Religious Identity in Croatia,” by Kunovich and Hodson

*      “Islam and Terrorism: A Lebanese Muslim View of 9-11,” by  Haddad and Khashan

*      “Financing Terror or Survival: Hawwalat in Somalia,” by Khalid M. Medani

*      “Gray Money, Corruption,” by John Sfakianakis

*      “Interreligious Conflict in Israel,” by Wald and Shye

*      “Al Qaeda, Terrorism, and Military Commissions,” by Ruth Wedgwood

*      “Religion and Politics in Egypt: Radical Islam and the State,” by Malika Zeghal

 

*      Classics in Sociological Analysis of Religion

*      The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,  by Max Weber

*      The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, by Emile Durkheim

*      Tokugawa Religion, by Robert Bellah

 

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