ABSTRACT
Religious radicalism (often termed ‘fundamentalism’) has recently resurfaced as a major force in shaping politics, space, and violence. The hub of the current wave of religious mobilization lies in massive urban agglomerations, particularly at the rapidly burgeoning, impoverished, and often informal urban margins of the global South, such as San Paolo, Mexico City, Baghdad, Johannesburg, Cairo, and Istanbul. But these mobilizations are intertwined with older waves of religious politicizations, associated with ethno-national urban struggles, as found in Beirut, Jerusalem, Sarajevo, Belfast, Ahmedabad, Nicosia, or Hebron. This is vividly revealed in the above quotations, where religion, nationalism, and class overlap to shape the political geography of radical religious mobilization.
