Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism

Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor Alan Jenkins, Rosanna Breen, Roger Lindsay, Angela Brew Klappentext This volume explores the relationships between fundamentalist religious belief, political extremism and outbreaks of religiously inspired violence. Zusammenfassung This volume explores the relationships between fundamentalist religious belief, political extremism and outbreaks of religiously inspired violence. 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;

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ami Pedahzur, Leonard Weinberg
• Mitarbeit: Ami Pedahzur (Herausgeber), Pedahzur Ami (Herausgeber), Leonard Weinberg (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cass, Frank
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 29.02.2004
• EAN: 9780714654928
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-5492-8
• Abmessung: 156 mm x 223 mm x 19 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Christentum; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Politics and government