About Henry Munson

Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Maine.Henry Munson
E-mail: henry_munson@umit.maine.edu.
South Stevens Hall, U. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469.

PRIMARY INTERESTS: Comparative study of religion, religion and politics, religion and violence, Islam and politics.

PERSONAL DATA: Born Nov. 1, 1946 in New York City.

EDUCATION:
1980 Ph.D., Social/Cultural Anthropology, University of Chicago.
1976 Certificate in Literary Arabic (year program), Center for Arabic Study Abroad, American University in Cairo.
1973 M.A., Linguistics, University of Chicago.
1970 B.A., Linguistics, Columbia College, Columbia University.

PUBLICATIONS

Books
1984 The House of Si Abd Allah: The Oral History of a Moroccan Family. New Haven: Yale University Press.
1988 Islam and Revolution in the Middle East. New Haven: Yale University Press.
1993 Religion and Power in Morocco. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Articles and Book Chapters Concerning Religion and Militant Religious Conservatism)
1986a Geertz on Religion: The Theory and the Practice. Religion 16:19-32.
1986b The Social Base of Islamic Militancy in Morocco. The Middle East Journal 40:267-84.
1986c Islamic Revivalism in Morocco and Tunisia. The Muslim World 76 (July/October 1986): 203-18.
1988 Morocco. In The Politics of Islamic Revivalism: Diversity and Unity, ed. Shireen Hunter. Pp. 133-47. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1991a Explaining the Iranian Revolution. Explorations 6:10-13, 24.
1991b Morocco’s Fundamentalists. Government and Opposition 26:331-44.
1993b The Political Role of Islam in Independent Morocco. In North Africa: Nation, State, and Region, ed. George Joffé. Pp. 187-202. London: Routledge.
1995a Morocco. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, ed. John Esposito. New York: Oxford University Press.
1995b Not All Crustaceans Are Crabs: Reflections on the Comparative Study of Fundamentalism and Politics. Contention 4 (Spring 1995): 151-66.
1995c Response to Appleby. Contention 4 (Spring 1995): 207-09.
1996a Intolerable Tolerance: Western Academia and Islamic Fundamentalism. Contention 5 (Spring 1996): 99-117.
1996b Response to Baron and Juergensmeyer. Contention 5 (Spring 1996): 133-34.
1996c Islamic Fundamentalism in Comparative Perspective. Digest of Middle East Studies 5 (Summer 1996): 6-11.
1996d Muslim and Jew in Morocco: Reflections on the Distinction between Belief and Behavior. In The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner, ed. John A. Hall and Ian C. Jarvie. Pp. 357-379. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi (Poznan Studies of the Sciences and the Humanities).
2000a Islamism and Nationalism. International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World Newsletter, June 2000: 48.
2000b The Ideologization of Religion in Response to Western Domination: The Cases of Hinduism, Islam, and Theravada Buddhism. In Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki Keddie, ed. Rudolph Mathee and Beth Baron. Costa Mesa: Mazda Press.
2002 Between Pipes and Esposito. International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World Newsletter, July 2002: 8.
2003a Islam, Nationalism, and Resentment of Foreign Domination. Middle East Policy 10/2 (Summer 2003): 40-53.
2003b `Fundamentalism’ Ancient and Modern. Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 132/3 (Summer 2003): 31-41.
2003c Fundamentalism: A Review Essay. Religion 33/4(October 2003):381-85.
2004 Lifting the Veil: Understanding the Roots of Islamic Militancy. Harvard International Review 25/4 (Winter 2004): 20-23. Reprinted in Annual Editions: World Politics 05/06, Annual Editions: Global Issues 05/06, Global Studies: Islam and the Muslim World (2006), and Global Studies: Middle East, 11th ed. (2007).
2005a Fundamentalism. In Companion to the Study of Religion, ed. John Hinnells. London: Routledge.
2005b Religion and Violence: A Review Essay. Religion 35/4 (October 2005: 223-246).
2006a Fundamentalism. In A Companion to the Study of Religion, ed. Robert A. Segal. Oxford: Blackwell.
2006b Islamic Militancy. In The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences, ed. Rick Fawn and Raymond Hinnebusch. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
2006c Fundamentalism. In Britannica Online.
2006d Comparing the Culture Wars in Israel and the Muslim Middle East. In Middle Eastern Societies and the West: Accommodation or Clash of Civilizations, ed. Meir Litvak. Tel Aviv: Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies.

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