Mark Juergensmeyer is a professor of sociology and global studies, affiliate professor of religious studies, and the Kundan Kaur Kapany professor of global and Sikh Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was the founding director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, and is a pioneer in the field of global studies, focusing on global religion, religious violence, conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics. He has published more than three hundred articles and twenty books, including the recent co-authored God in the Tumult of the Global Square (University of California Press, 2015). He specializes in religious terrorism.
Visit the KEYT3 news site to hear Professor Juergensmeyer speak on the recent terrorist attacks on Paris.