UNC-Chapel Hill, fall 2002
RELIGIOUS STUDIES 120

Religion, Fundamentalism, and Nationalism

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          Events from Carolina Seminar on Comparative Islamic Studies
 

GENERAL REFERENCE ON RELIGION & CULTURE

Religious Movements Homepage (University of Virginia)
Adherents.com (statistics on 4200 different religions)
Islamweb/Islamic Studies Internet Curricular Resources Web Guides (UNC)
Afghanistan Cultural Heritage (UNC)


MIDDLE EAST

Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) primers and articles:
The introduction to Milestones by Sayyid Qutb, theorist of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood

“Gush Emunim: The Twilight of Zionism?” by Ellen Cantarow


SOUTH ASIA

Babri Masjid Archive  (Muslim site)
VHP Shri Ramjanam Bhumi Movement  (VHP is a prominent ideological Hindu organization)
VHP Hindu Agenda
VHP Challenges Before Hindu Society & Our Response
BJP & the Ayodhya Movement (the BJP is a Hindu party affiliated with the VHP)
Hindutva (meaning "Hindu principles," another slogan of the Hindu right)
“Hindu Rashtra” (Hindu Nation)
Nathuram Godse (assassin of Gandhi)
Know Your Hindu Fundamentalism (Dalit or "Untouchable" website denouncing Indian Fascism)
RELIGION AND VIOLENCE/TERRORISM
Wabash Center resources page on Religion and Violence
Wabash Center resources page on Sept. 11 attacks
Social Sciences Research Council "after sept. 11: perspectives from the social sciences"
Federal Research Division Terrorism Studies
Islamic Statements Against Terrorism in the Wake of the September 11 Mass Murders
"What is Political Islam?" by Charles Hirschkind
"Islam and the Theology of Power," by Khaled Abou El Fadl
Terrorism: Questions and Answers (Council on Foreign Relations)
Islamic Studies Resources at UNC