| Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism Contributor(s): Pedahzur, Ami (Editor), Weinberg, Leonard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0714654922 ISBN-13: 9780714654928 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: Contributors to this volume explore 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 increasingly strident religious understandings of how societies should be organised? The contributors to this volume do not always agree on the answers to these questions. But they do agreee the questions themselves are among the most important to be posed in the early years of the 21st century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Studies - General |
| Dewey: 320.55 |
| LCCN: 2003016967 |
| Series: Cass Series--Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.1" W x 8.56" (0.82 lbs) 178 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? |