Torkel Brekke is a Professor of the History of Religions and South Asian Studies at the University of Oslo. Before being appointed to his current position, he completed his DPhil at Oxford and served as advisor in the Norwegian Ministry of Defence. Besides his university position he works for the think tank Civita. He has written and edited several books, including Makers of Modern Indian Religion and The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations, and his articles have appeared in numerous journals.

'A lucid, accessible, and sophisticated account of fundamentalism as a global phenomenon, this book provides us with both a context and a language to understand some of the most important religious movements of our time. Having been neglected by scholars and languished in the hands of polemicists for more than a decade now, Torkel Brekke has rescued fundamentalism as an analytical concept.' Faisal Devji, University of Oxford

• Introduction; Part I. The Historical and Ideological Context of Fundamentalism: 1. Religion and modernity in the West; 2. Religion and globalization; 3. A global shift in religious authority; 4. Prophecy and preaching; Part II. Fundamentalist Struggles: 5. The struggle for the state; 6. The struggle over law; 7. The struggle for the sciences; 8. The struggle over education; 9. The struggle over women; Conclusion.

Torkel Brekke is a Professor of the History of Religions and South Asian Studies at the University of Oslo. Before being appointed to his current position, he completed his DPhil at Oxford and served as advisor in the Norwegian Ministry of Defence. Besides his university position he works for the think tank Civita. He has written and edited several books, including Makers of Modern Indian Religion and The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations, and his articles have appeared in numerous journals.

'A lucid, accessible, and sophisticated account of fundamentalism as a global phenomenon, this book provides us with both a context and a language to understand some of the most important religious movements of our time. Having been neglected by scholars and languished in the hands of polemicists for more than a decade now, Torkel Brekke has rescued fundamentalism as an analytical concept.' Faisal Devji, University of Oxford

• Introduction; Part I. The Historical and Ideological Context of Fundamentalism: 1. Religion and modernity in the West; 2. Religion and globalization; 3. A global shift in religious authority; 4. Prophecy and preaching; Part II. Fundamentalist Struggles: 5. The struggle for the state; 6. The struggle over law; 7. The struggle for the sciences; 8. The struggle over education; 9. The struggle over women; Conclusion.