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“Religion is like a nail. The harder you hit it, the deeper it goes into the wood” (Emerson, 1981:159).
The second stage, the focus of this chapter, is the development of the Islamic resurgence movement among young people. The important feature of this period is the spread of Islamic resurgence ideas through communication and evangelism, either by persuasive individuals, or through various sorts of mass gatherings. To assist an understanding of this process, I attend to two aspects of the development: the organisations through which the movement developed, focusing on public mosques, campus Islamic preaching organisations, and Islamic movements; and the social phenomena which challenged or accelerated the development of the movement during the 1980s.