Mark Juergensmeyer

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size

Notes

1 The interview took place on February 25, 2012 at the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

2 Paul Orfalea founded the copy-chain Kinko's in 1970. For more information on Orfalea, see http://www.paulorfalea.com/home/index.cfm

Additional information

Mark Juergensmeyer is Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, Professor of Sociology, and affiliate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). An expert on global religious violence, conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics, Juergensmeyer is the 2003 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for contributions to the study of religion, and was elected president of the American Academy of Religion. He has published more than 200 articles and 20 books, including Global rebellion: Religious challenges to the secular state (2008), and his bestselling Terror in the mind of god: The global rise of religious violence (2003). He is also the editor of the Oxford handbook of global religion (2006) and the co-editor of The encyclopedia of global studies (2012). Mark Juergensmeyer was one of the driving forces behind the establishment of pioneering international and global studies programs at UCSB in the late 1990s. Today, there are more than 900 undergraduate majors in global studies at UCSB. He also helped establish the Global Studies Consortium as one of the leading academic associations in global studies.