Mark Juergensmeyer is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. He is author or editor of thirty books, including the award-winning Terror in the Mind of God and the recent God at War.

Preface
1. The Trajectory of Imagined Wars
2. The Apocalyptic War of the Islamic State
3. The Militant Struggle of Mindanao Muslims
4. The Fight for Khalistan in India's Punjab
5. How Imagined Wars End

Notes
Interviews
Bibliography
Index