Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Pedahzur, Ami; Weinberg, Leonard

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135758899
• Artikelnr.: 42976019

Autorenporträt

Alan Jenkins, Rosanna Breen, Roger Lindsay, Angela Brew

Inhaltsangabe

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;