Mark Juergensmeyer

[1] Juergensmeyer is regarded as an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution, and South Asian religion and politics and has published thirty books and over 300 articles.

With John Stratton Hawley, he co-translated a book of medieval Indian poetry, Songs of the Saints of India.

Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State was cited by The New York Times as a notable book of the year in 1995.

This book introduced the concepts of "cosmic war" and "performance violence" as central to religious-related terrorism.

A five-year project funded by Uppsala University, Sweden, resulted in a publication on how jihadi terrorist movements terminate, When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends (2022).

[5] He was a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC in 1988-89 and has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the American Institute for Indian Studies.