Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-7146-8394-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 245 g

This book explores the relationships between fundamentalist religious belief, political extremism and outbreaks of religiously inspired violence. Is the post-Cold War world increasingly violent and is this violence the result of strident religious understandings of how societies should be organized?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pedahzur, Ami

Weinberg, Leonard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Return of Martyrdom: Honour, Death and Immortality, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi; Chapter 3 Two Religious Meaning Systems, One Political Belief System, Daphna Canetti-Nisim; Chapter 4 Religious Violence and the Myth of Fundamentalism, Michael Barkun; Chapter 5 The Uniqueness of Islamic Fundamentalism and the Fourth Wave of International Terrorism, Ben-dor Gabriel, Pedahzur Ami; Chapter 6 Jewish Self-Defence and Terrorist Groups Prior to the Establishment of the State of Israel, Arie Perliger, Leonard Weinberg; Chapter 7 Counting the Causes and Dynamics of Ethnoreligious Violence, Jonathan Fox; Chapter 8 Reflections on Fascism and Religion, Roger Eatwell;

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Jenkins, Rosanna Breen, Roger Lindsay, Angela Brew