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Mark Juergensmeyer

Mark Juergensmeyer is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Global Studies at UCSB, and his latest book is God at War: A Meditation on Religion and Warfare (Oxford University Press).

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Why ISIS War Would Make Paris Attacks a Success

Update: According to CNN, “the French air force carried out bombing missions on ISIS targets in Raqqa, Syria, for a second day in a row. France is retaliating against Islamist extremist terror attacks…
Mark Juergensmeyer
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Why I Boycotted a Conference at Brigham Young University

A university is a public institution. It is not a Sunday school.
Mark Juergensmeyer
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"What Kind of Islam Is That?": Talking With Refugees From ISIS

“They believe in some strange religion, not Islam,” a Muslim refugee from the Iraq city of Ramadi told me when I talked with him recently in a camp near the Kurdistan capital of Erbil in Northern Iraq…
Mark Juergensmeyer
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