surroundings. The research strategy Juergensmeyer has taken is a multi-angled approach. Not only has he personally gone to do research and interviews, he has hired or made contacts in the various areas of his research. For example, He thanks Cynthia Mahmood for helping him contact Sikh activists and help him understand their politics. He also thanks several other people that has helped him out in different areas of his research, some of which were mentioned in the fourth paragraph. In some books and other journalistic readings, the author puts out ideas, facts, and opinions in which it is up to the reader to decipher the information and sort out what is which. US newspapers and broadcasts do a very good job conveying information to the readers in a way incite a specific reaction. In politics, we call this a loaded statement. Juergensmeyer did not make me have to decipher the information he provided throughout the book. In the beginning, he made several strong statements on what the book is going to try to prove. To prove his points, Mark used mass quantities of research and facts to express the ideas he was trying to prove. In this case it was whether religious terrorism is any different than other forms of terrorism. The way he chooses to present the information is in a narrative type way, in which he used both researched information and quotes from the interviews he conducted. As I was reading this book, I imagined I was watching a documentary on the History Channel, Juergensmeyer being the narrator. His descriptions helped me picture in my mind what was going on and made me feel as I was getting an insiders view of the action. I felt that he accomplished the goals he set for the book, and by the time I got done reading it I took the stance that religious terrorism is in fact different than other terrorist activities....
