Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Fundamentalism and Communication: Culture, Media and the Public Sphere -- Ulrika Martensson, Jennifer Bailey, Priscilla Ringrose, Asbjorn Dyrendal -- 1. Global Communication online against Fundamentalist Knowledge offline? -- May Thorseth -- 2. The Validity of Human Rights and the Problem of Religious Fundamentalism -- Petra Hedberg -- 3. Public Ritual as Communication in the Mass Media: Inclusion or ex-communication -- Stefano M. Bisighin and Lionel Sacks -- 4. The Gold Standard of Fundamentalist Methodologies -- Lionel Sacks -- 5. The Cartoon Controversy in Norway: The New Christian Right and Liberal Fundamentalism Confronting Islam? -- Oddbjorn Leirvik -- 6. Americans Conservative Protestants and Embedded Literacy -- Jennifer L. Bailey -- 7. The Quest for the 'Perfect Tile': Fundamentalism in Roman Catholicism -- Michael Trainor -- 8. Hizb Ut-Tah and the Public Sphere in Bangladesh: Confronting the Crisis -- Ahmed Abidur Razzaque Khan -- 9. Cyber-Buddhism: Fundamentalism, the Internet and the Public Sphere in Thailand -- Sorai Hongladarom and Krisadawan Hongladarom -- 10. The Quest for Orthodoxy and Tradition in Islam: Hanbali Responses to Sufism -- Gavin N. Picken -- 11. Islamic Fundamentalism in Arab Television: Islamism and Salafism in Competition -- Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen -- 12. Religion, Family and Modernity in Zadie Smith's White Teeth -- Priscilla Ringrose -- 13. The Ball is not Always Round: Deliberations over Global Football Among Radical Muslim 'Fundamentalist' -- Moshe Terdman -- Index.