Mark Juergensmeyer is professor of Sociology and director of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Juergensmeyer is the winner of the Grawemeyer Award for his book Terror in the Mind of God (2000). He is the editor of Global Religions: An Introduction (2003) and is also the author of The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State and Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution (1994), both from University of California Press.