Rethinking Political Islam
Publisher’s description For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever obtained power. Now, academics and Islamists alike finally have answers. And they are confusing. In the[…]
Category: Ideologies
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Global Sufism: Boundaries, Structures, and Politics
Publisher’s description Sufism is a growing and global phenomenon, far from the declining relic it was once thought to be. This book brings together the work of fourteen leading experts[…]
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The Extreme Right in Interwar France: The Faisceau and the Croix de Feu
Publishers’ description Historians of the French extreme right frequently denote the existence of a strong xenophobic and nationalist tradition dating from the 1880s, a perpetual anti-republicanism which pervaded twentieth-century political[…]
Muslim Youth in the Diaspora: Challenging Extremism through Popular Culture
Publisher’s description In a world where the term Islam is ever-increasingly an inaccurate and insensitive synonym for terrorism, it is unsurprising that many Muslim youth in the West struggle for[…]
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Terrorism, religion and self-control: An unexpected connection between conservative religious commitment and terrorist efficacy
Journal abstract Correlations between terrorism and the religious commitments of terrorist organizations and actors have been the subject of extensive scholarly investigation. Whilst the focus has often been on extreme[…]
Towards a Definition of Terrorist Ideology
Journal abstract While conventional wisdom holds that the ideology espoused by a terrorist organization is somehow related to that organization’s actions, the precise nature of the relationship between these phenomena[…]
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Does State Repression Suppress the Protest Participation of Religious People?
Journal abstract The relationship between religion and protest participation has long been of interest to sociologists, however few cross-national, quantitative studies have examined this relationship in a robust methodological way.[…]
“Nullification through armed civil disobedience”: a case study of strategic framing in the patriot/militia movement
Journal abstract The patriot/militia movement in the US has grown in prominence over the past several years, with the movement engaging in high-profile conflicts with law enforcement (e.g., at the[…]
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Religious memory on Facebook in times of refugee crisis
Journal abstract The aim of this article is to analyse the religious discourse on Polish Facebook in relation to the refugee crisis. The primary focus is on how religious memory[…]
Changing constructions of religious visibility: The case of an African American Muslim community in South Central LA
Journal abstract Through a case study of a mosque in Los Angeles, I examine how changing constructions of space affect the ways a religious community comes together to engage faith.[…]
Fighting the Enemies of God: the Rise of and the Response to Violent Extremism in Sudan13 November, 2019
The Strategy of Exclusion in American Counterterrorism11 November, 2019- Community Stakeholder Responses to Countering Violent Extremism Locally8 November, 2019
The War on Cyberterrorism6 November, 2019