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Mark Juergensmeyer (born 1940 in Carlinville, Illinois) is an American sociologist and scholar specialized in global studies and religious studies, and a writer best known for his studies on comparative religion, religious violence, and global religion. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College.[1]

Juergensmeyer is regarded as an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution, and South Asian religion and politics and has published thirty books and over 300 articles. He has been a frequent commentator on news programs, especially after 9/11.[2]

  1. ^ "Mark Juergensmeyer | Department of Global Studies - UC Santa Barbara".
  2. ^ "2003 – Mark Juergensmeyer – Grawemeyer Awards". 21 July 2003.

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psychologist Brooke Rogers, and sociologist and religious studies scholar Mark Juergensmeyer have all argued that religion should only be considered one incidental...

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Mark Juergensmeyer, the term Radha Soami literally refers to Radha as the soul and Soami (swami, lord). According to Salig Ram, quotes Juergensmeyer,...

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book by Mark Juergensmeyer The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections, and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union, a 2007 book by Mark MacKinnon...

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[citation needed] Contemporary Sant Mat movements Dayalbagh Sant Mat Mark Juergensmeyer (1991). Radhasoami Reality: The Logic of a Modern Faith. Princeton...

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1994. This was described as a case of Jewish religious terrorism by Mark Juergensmeyer. Goldstein was a medical doctor who grew up in Brooklyn and was educated...

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Indian subcontinent

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or South Asia, presents a tradition comparable to Confucianism." Mark Juergensmeyer, The Oxford handbook of global religions, pages 465, Oxford University...

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Meghwal

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(PDF) from the original on 27 March 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2020. Mark Juergensmeyer. (1988). Religious Rebels in The Punjab: The Social Vision of Untouchables...

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Religion in Latvia

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Today. Retrieved 28 July 2007. Encyclopedia of Global Religion by Mark Juergensmeyer, Wade Clark Roof; page 111. State Responses to Minority Religions...

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Brahman

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Studies. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 192–193. ISBN 978-81-208-3248-0. Mark Juergensmeyer; Wade Clark Roof (2011). Encyclopedia of Global Religion. SAGE Publications...

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Hong Tianguifu

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whereas almost all Chinese given names have just one or two characters. Mark Juergensmeyer & Wade Clark Roof, Taiping Rebellion, in Encyclopedia of Global Religion...

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Christian terrorism

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associated with acts of domestic terrorism in the United States. Mark Juergensmeyer, a former president of the American Academy of Religion, has argued...

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colonial officer. It is alleged by Mark Juergensmeyer that Savarkar supplied the gun which Dhingra used. Juergensmeyer further alleged that Savarkar supplied...

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Yoel Lerner

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purpose was to make it possible to rebuild the Temple Mount site.: 45  Mark Juergensmeyer identified Lerner as a Jewish religious terrorist, writing that he...

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Irreligion in China

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Fingarette, Confucius: The Secular as Sacred (New York: Harper, 1972). Juergensmeyer, Mark (2005). Religion in global civil society. Oxford University Press...

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Khalistan Commando Force

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Archived from the original on 2 August 2009. Retrieved 9 August 2009. Mark Juergensmeyer (September 2003). Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious...

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Haratin

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University Press. p. 549. ISBN 9780195337709. Joseph R Hellweg (2011). Mark Juergensmeyer; Wade Clark Roof (eds.). Encyclopedia of Global Religion. SAGE Publications...

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Guru Granth Sahib

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his translation as extremely offensive. According to the Indologist Mark Juergensmeyer, setting aside Ernest Trumpp's nasty remarks, he was a German linguist...

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Kushinagar

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Historical Introduction. Thomson. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-534-20718-2. Mark Juergensmeyer; Wade Clark Roof (2011). Encyclopedia of Global Religion. SAGE Publications...

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Criticism of religion

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terrorist bombings are more politically motivated than religious. Mark Juergensmeyer argues that religion "does not ordinarily lead to violence. That happens...

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Christianity and violence

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sword" has been interpreted by some as a call to arms for Christians. Mark Juergensmeyer argues that "despite its central tenets of love and peace, Christianity—like...

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Contemporary Sant Mat movements

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attempts to study their formation from a socio-economic point of view. Mark Juergensmeyer has also extensively studied groups related to Radha Soami Satsang...

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Brahma

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Introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-19-564441-8. Mark Juergensmeyer; Wade Clark Roof (2011). Encyclopedia of Global Religion. SAGE Publications...

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Sant Mat

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whose current Living Master is Baba Gurinder Singh. According to Mark Juergensmeyer, that claim is also made by the Kabir-panthis, the Satpanthis, the...

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Sawan Singh

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Satsang Beas. Radhasoami Reality: the logic of a modern faith by Mark Juergensmeyer. p.52. Princeton University Press, 1991 Lane, David (1992). The Radhasoami...

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Alex Odeh

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Ongoing Investigation of Terrorist Attack, ADC web site, October 2008. Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the mind of God. 2003, p. 56. Tom Tugend, Never Say Never...

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