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Recognizing Religious Extremism I
2022Abstract Terror networks fueled by extremist interpretations of Islam, like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Qaeda, are, generally speaking, extreme, violent manifestations of religious fundamentalism: that is, a religious form whose adherents feel existentially threatened by powerful secular forces and/or more dominant ...
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Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism
Nova Religio, 2004This 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?
Leonard Weinberg, Ami Pedahzur
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Religious Extremism, Religious Education, and the Interpretive Approach
Religion & Education, 2013This article offers a discussion of issues relating to religiously inspired terrorism in religious education through the 3 key concepts of the interpretive approach. It examines representation in relation to Islam and terrorism and argues that processes of homogenization, sanitization, and reification create distortion.
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Addressing religious extremism through theologically informed religious education
Journal of Religious Education, 2019The article will put the case for a robust theology to underpin religious education with potential to address contemporary matters in a way that genuinely informs and stimulates critical and self-reflective knowing. It will utilize a Habermasian frame of reference in constructing this argument.
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Religious Fundamentalism and Violent Extremism
2019All religions have worldviews and their followers become defensive when threatened. We can find examples of numerous religious-fundamentalist movements, such as Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, and Christian. The September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States brought attention to Islamic fundamentalism and extremism.
Zahid Shahab Ahmed, Galib Bashirov
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The European extreme right and religious extremism
2013The ideology of the Extreme Right in Western Europe is rooted in Catholic fundamentalism and Counter-Revolutionary ideas. However, the Extreme Right, like all other political families, has had to adjust to an increasingly secular society. The old link between religion and the Extreme Right has thus been broken and in fact already was when Fascism ...
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Who’s Afraid of Religious Extremism?
Journal of Muslims in Europe, 2021Abstract This article explores the dynamics of competition between Muslim organisations in Ukraine after the eruption of the Russian–Ukrainian crisis in March 2014. In particular, it deals with the issue of religious extremism as another ideological fault line between two main centres of Islamic religious authority, the Spiritual Administration of ...
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1983
Contrary to prevailing paradigms of modernization and secularization, I contend that extremism is the religious norm, and that it is not religious extremism but religious moderation that requires explanation. Relying on impressions from contemporary Judaism, extremism is defined here as the desire to expand the scope, detail and strictness of religious
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Contrary to prevailing paradigms of modernization and secularization, I contend that extremism is the religious norm, and that it is not religious extremism but religious moderation that requires explanation. Relying on impressions from contemporary Judaism, extremism is defined here as the desire to expand the scope, detail and strictness of religious
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Can we predict religious extremism?
Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2017Given events such as 11 September, the 2013 Boston Bombing, and the 2015 Paris attacks it is becoming increasingly apparent that religious extremism has great potential to negatively impact our dai...
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Drivers of Violent Religious Extremism
2022Contemporary violent Islamist extremism in Europe is the product of a series of societal and political dynamics that began decades ago, both within and outside the continent. Moreover, it must be noted that the current perspective on religious radicalisation from the analytical angle of academic literature highlights, more than in the past, the ...
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