Fundamentalism and terrorism: The contemporary religious challenge [PDF]
, 2006 For nearly a century the term ‘fundamentalism’ has referred primarily to a set of specific Christian beliefs and an allied ultra-conservative attitude.
Pratt, Douglas
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Evaluating Authoritarian Performance: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Attitudes in Saudi Arabia
Governance, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Many authoritarian regimes seek mass support through policy performance – delivering material benefits to citizens. When do citizens respond to these appeals? Standard explanations emphasize national‐level outcomes and individual patronage, along with regimes' messaging “spin.” By contrast, we argue that historical legacies of coalition ...
Andrew Leber, Jonas Bergan Draege
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The Logic behind Suicide Terrorism and its Connection to Islam [PDF]
, 2018 The purpose of this thesis is to analyze suicide terrorism and to examine the logic behind it. The thesis will examine recent Islamic suicide terrorism and why it is so successful.
Minnick, Sarah
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Collective Violence
Aggressive Behavior, Volume 52, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Although collective violence remains a pervasive issue affecting many societies today, the specific psychological mechanisms underlying individual differences in support for collective violence are relatively understudied. In four studies, using five samples from Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey (total N = 3758), we conceptualize and develop a new ...
Ramzi Abou‐Ismail +5 more
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Criminalising religious pluralism : the legal treatment of Shiites in Malaysia [PDF]
, 2016 Shia teachings and doctrine are currently being socially-constructed as a new threat to the survival of Sunni Islam, followed by the majority of Muslims in Malaysia.
Quraishi, MM, Samuri, MA-A
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Perceiving People as a Group: Diversity and Its Interpretation at the Muslim Pilgrimage of the Hajj
Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT Group behaviour depends on people categorising themselves and others in terms of a shared social identity. Experimental research addressing perceptions of entitativity (i.e., seeing people as a unified entity) highlights the importance of judgements concerning people's behavioural (dis)similarities.
Enes Yalcin, Nick Hopkins
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Can we have another Fall?Evidence from past, present and prediction for future [PDF]
This paper is an attempt to lift a commentary on why and how history observed the fall of Dhaka. Was the fall of Dhaka inevitable, did the people of Pakistan ever learn any lesson of mutual respect, humility and realism from this fall?
Hasan, Syed Akif +2 more
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Christian ideology and the image of a holy land: the place of Jerusalem pilgrimage in the various Christianities [PDF]
, 2013 The great majority of the world's holy cities and sacred shrines attract pilgrims from culturally circumscribed catchment areas, and thus host pilgrims united by strong degrees of cultural homogeneity.
Bowman, Glenn W.
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Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 123-142, March 2026.The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
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Radicalization as a reaction to failure: an economic model of islamic extremism [PDF]
This paper views Islamist radicals as self-interested political revolutionaries and builds on a general model of political extremism developed in a previous paper (Ferrero, 2002), where extremism is modelled as a production factor whose effect on ...
Ferrero, Mario
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