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The Rhetoric of Religious Extremism

Review of Communication, 2008
Lindsay, S. A. (2006). Psychotic entelechy: The dangers of spiritual gifts theology. New York: University Press of America. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-7618-3493-1. $29.95 (paperback).
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The Threat of Religious Extremism

2009
Abstract Freedom of conscience is arguably the most important aspect of a democratic society. This freedom includes freedom of thought, speech, and religious conduct. Such freedom, exercised by individuals within a larger society, can result in positive progression of a society (abolitionists, women suffragists, civil rights activists ...
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Who’s Afraid of Religious Extremism?

Journal of Muslims in Europe, 2021
Abstract 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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Religious extremism: Origins and consequences

Contemporary Jewry, 1999
Economic perspectives enhance our understanding of religious beliefs, activities, and institutions. This essay outlines an economic theory of supernaturalism that accounts for the failure of secularization theories, the contrasting character of religion and magic, and the continued vitality of extremely demanding religious groups. Drawing upon insights
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Religious Extremism

2018
Emeka Thaddues Njoku, Joshua Akintayo
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Drivers of Violent Religious Extremism

2022
Contemporary 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 ...
Daher l. m., Annovi C., Di liddo M., Gamuzza A., Leonora A. m.   +4 more
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Religious Extremism, Religiosity and Sympathy toward the Taliban among Students across Madrassas and Worldly Education Schools in Pakistan

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2021
Saba Hanif, Majid Hassan Ali, Faiza Shaheen   +2 more
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The meanings, risk factors and consequences of religious extremism: The perceptions of Islamic education teachers from Israel

British Educational Research Journal, 2023
Najwan Saada
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Extreme Experiences and Religious Cognitions

2001
Abstract In these lectures I propose to deal with certain associations between personal physical experience and established religious cosmologies, looking at how each reflects on the other and how we might go about considering this relationship. How ‘natural’ is religion? Could it be derived from our bodily experience?
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A City of Industrial and Religious Extremes

2017
This chapter examines the case of Chicago and nineteenth-century Protestantism, the development of factions within the eight-hour movement, and the relationship between labor reformers, employers, and Protestant clergy in the city. Beneath the manifest economic and political conflicts that characterized Chicago's eight-hour movement was a debate ...
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