Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World
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Today new and ever more pernicious forms of terrorist violence threaten the world. Because these new forms of violence are so often linked to religious radicalism, modern terrorism has challenged the secular ethics of contemporary civil society. There is a pressing need to understand modern religious movements that have added militancy and belligerence as fundamental elements of religious practice. Contributors to this volume painstakingly tackle the question of how to define the contours of current religious fundamentalism as they examine the private and public postures of fundamentalist…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Today new and ever more pernicious forms of terrorist violence threaten the world. Because these new forms of violence are so often linked to religious radicalism, modern terrorism has challenged the secular ethics of contemporary civil society. There is a pressing need to understand modern religious movements that have added militancy and belligerence as fundamental elements of religious practice. Contributors to this volume painstakingly tackle the question of how to define the contours of current religious fundamentalism as they examine the private and public postures of fundamentalist rhetoric, the importance of its regional variants, and the damage it can do to regional and national education systems.
Autorenporträt
Edited by Santosh C. Saha - Contributions by Jacob Abadi; Alexander Agadjanian; Zohair Husain; Ted G. Jelen; Graeme Suart Land; David Rosenbaum; Yvette Claire Rosser; Dipankar Sinha; Tamara Sonn; Krishna K. Tummala and Vivienne Wee