1st Edition
Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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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?
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;
Biography
Alan Jenkins, Rosanna Breen, Roger Lindsay, Angela Brew
"This is an excellent and stimulating collection. It is part of the new Frank Cass series on 'Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions', which will include volumes on Stalinism, International Fascism, Italian Fascism, Nazism, Euro-Communism and Genocide."
Thomas Robbins, Rochester, Minnesota
