Entering Religious Minds

Led by Mona Kanwal Sheikh and Mark Juergensmeyer nine authors journey into the worlds of unusual sometimes violent religious groups. Together these original first-person contributions provide an integrated problem-solving approach to field research in religious extremism illustrating ground-breaking methods in gaining access to their subjects’ worldviews. In a narrative style that is at once both conversational and rigorous the book demonstrates for students researchers and journalists the relevance of religious studies to political science sociology and anthropology. It is particularly well suited to upper-level courses at the intersection of religion and the social sciences.