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The need to reformulate education policy for purposes of addressing religious extremism, with reference to three South African policy documents [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Comparative Education, 2018
Religious and other forms of extremism are rife in modern societies. This paper explores some of the reasons why some young people do not follow the “normal” pathways towards becoming citizens who can contribute to the well-being of society and to ...
Johannes L van der Walt
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The Electoral Coalition of the Radical Right in Western Europe

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most research on the radical right attempts to identify the one central voting motive among its supporters, few studies have sought to differentiate between different types of voters. Given this research gap, we assume that there are multiple paths to the radical right and that different groups have different motives for their support ...
Florian Buchmayr
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Security, Religion, and Political Culture: A Defense of Weak Disestablishment

Religions, 2019
Many, especially in the West, have long argued against state religious establishments on the ethical grounds of the rights of freedom of conscience and personal autonomy.
Joseph Prud’homme
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Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi‐clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, historians, as well as those in adjacent disciplines, have often been unable to gain access to sufficient records or data to conduct analysis of who supports
Evan Smith, Lauren Pikó
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Religious Extremism in the Former Soviet Union

Евразийская интеграция: экономика, право, политика, 2019
The article is devoted to judgment of the concept “religious extremism”, its diffusion in the Former Soviet Union, to implication forms and references on counteraction.
A. V. Vinokur
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Religious Extremism as Social Phenomenon [PDF]

SOCRATES. Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes Juridiskās fakultātes elektroniskais juridisko zinātnisko rakstu žurnāls / SOCRATES. Rīga Stradiņš University Faculty of Law Electronic Scientific Journal of Law, 2019
There are numerous examples where political and religious contradictions have caused deep social crisis and disintegration of the state. It is true that the world is marked by new waves of violent extremism, radicalism and terrorism in the background of which are hidden religious, ethnic and ideological reasons.
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A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Politicians and philosophers alike have warned that the spread of anti‐migrant bigotry in the Western world requires a tragic trade‐off regarding immigration policy: Although millions of asylum‐seekers might be owed admission to Western democracies, there are many cases where they nonetheless ought to be denied entry, because their admission ...
Shmuel Nili
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The role of religious mentoring in countering extremism and terrorism

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2017
Religious, Islamic in particular, extremism under the current political conditions on a global scale has been discussed. A significant obstacle to stopping the alarming rise in young people taking up arms on behalf of various terrorist organizations is ...
L.M. Ravandi-Fadai
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The Myth of Religious “Radicalism”

Al-Albab, 2020
This work examines an academic exposure on the issues of religious radicalism increasing globally not only in the West but also in the east countries.
Amanah Nurish
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The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The past decade has seen a marked shift as many previously liberal democratic states have backslidden, taking authoritarian turns. How should liberal actors respond to democratic backsliding by others? Although it might seem that it is vital for liberal actors to react robustly to avoid complicity or to maintain their liberal integrity, this ...
James Pattison
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