he Islamic Movement, which is national, or rather, cosmic and universal" (Bodansky 244-5).
Juergensmeyer believes that the tenure of religious nationalist ideologues is relatively temporary in the geopolitical scheme of things and will decline as their failure to deliver the material benefits available to the rest of the world is finally exposed. In this regard, Daniszewski (A1) cites the "weary, rent-a-crowd feel" among the merchants and ordinary citizens in response to government mobilization efforts against Ethiopia in 1997. However, in the meantime, in Juergensmeyer's view, political versions of religion--whether in the mold of Islam in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East or in the mold of Christian militias in the U.S.--will be a central response of "those who feel desperate and desolate in the current geo-political crisis. The problem that they experience is not with God, but with politics, and with their profound perceptions that the moral and ideological pillars of social order have collapsed" (Juergensmeyer 19).
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