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'Radicalisation' has often seemed the key to understanding, and preventing, modern terrorism. This site aims to gather high-quality academic research on radicalisation and make it easily accessible for policymakers, journalists and anyone else whose work deals with this area. It is managed by the Religion and Society Research Programme.
Establishing official Islam?
This article provides both a good introductory survey to approaches to counter-radicalisation, placing US efforts in the context of European practices.
Les mythes du temple solaire
An analysis of The Order of the Solar Temple that has influenced all subsequent studies and that remains the most significant work on the topic.
Destroying the world to save It
Lifton looks at Aum Shinrikyō, its orientations, members and activities and seeks to identify in particular the characteristics and psychological orientation of its guru, Asahara Shoko.
Religion and social crisis in Japan
This collection of essays provides an outline of Aum’s turn to violence and an analysis of how different agencies and interest groups within Japan responded to the affair.
The potentiality of contemporary religion
Based on the sermons of Asahara Shoko (leader of Aum Shinrikyo), this book is one of the most extensive examinations of the relationship between religious doctrines and violence.
Suicide Bombers
This book makes the claim that an important distinction should be made between two types of jihadist martyrdoms.
Religious violence in contemporary Japan
Study of the Japanese religious movement Aum Shinrikyo, which released Sarin gas into the Tokyo transport system in 1995.
Radicalisation and the Arab Spring
Assessing the impact of the Arab Spring on the fortunes of Jihadist movements in the Middle East, Khosrokhavar argues that it dealt a major blow to their wider attraction.
In the aftermath of Aum Shinrikyo: lessons learned from the Japanese response
An analysis of the impact of the Aum Shinrikyo affair, and an application of lessons that can be learned from those events to contemporary discussions of radicalisation.
What causes Radicalisation? Main lines of consensus in recent research.
Introductory guide to the causes of radicalisation.
