Religious fundamentalism and political extremism
Titel: | Religious fundamentalism and political extremism / ed. Leonard Weinberg .̤ |
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Veröffentlicht: | London [u.a.] : Cass, 2004 |
Umfang: | 178 S. : graph. Darst |
Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cass series: totalitarian movements and political religions |
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ISBN: | 0714683949 ; 0714654922 |
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This 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?