Progressive Utilization Theory - Critiques

Critiques

In a recent and well-researched book, James R. Lewis asserts that there is a "dramatic" number of correlations between Ananda Marga and Mark Juergensmeyer's "description of religious groups inclined toward terrorism". After considerable analysis, Lewis concludes that it is probably more appropriate to describe the followers of Sarkar as revolutionary rather than terrorist. As such, Lewis classifies them as "revolutionary sociospiritual utopians".