Populism and the Crisis of Democracy
Volume 2: Politics, Social Movements and Extremism Publisher’s description The contributions to this volume Politics, Social Movements and Extremism take serious the fact that populism is a symptom of the[…]
Category: Ideologies
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Militant Right-Wing Extremism in Putin’s Russia: Legacies, Forms and Threats
Publisher’s description Militancy continues to be characteristic of many supporters of the Russian far right, encompassing a belligerent rhetoric, a strong perception of participants as political warriors and often the[…]
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Gender and the Radical and Extreme Right: Mechanisms of Transmission and the Role of Educational Interventions
Publisher’s description Gender and the Radical and Extreme Right takes up an important and often-overlooked across scholarship on the radical right, gender, and education. These subfields have mostly operated independent[…]
Islamic Fundamentalism
Publisher’s description The phenomenon of political Islam continues to dominate the political and social map of the Arab world, with the increasingly open struggle between ruling elites and Islamists becoming[…]
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An Introduction to Religion and Politics: Theory and Practice
Publisher’s description This fully revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the many theories of religion and politics and provides students with an accessible, in-depth guide to the subject’s most[…]
The Spiritual Teacher and His Truants: The Influence and Relevance of Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi
Journal abstract Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi is one of the most important spiritual fathers of the ideology and movement that has come to be known as Salafi-jihadism. Based on primary source[…]
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Ideological Rigidity and Flexibility of Secular and Religious Terror Groups: The Case of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Hamas
Journal abstract This article explores the ideological rigidity of secular and religious terror groups. Analyzing leaflets disseminated by two Palestinian groups during the First Intifada, it examines if and how[…]
Being Viking: Heathenism in Contemporary America
Publisher’s description Contemporary Paganism has been a growing segment of American religiosity for over forty years and is composed of a variety of groups, practices, and ideologies. Ásatrú (Asatru), a[…]
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Adopting religion to meet political goals: the case of Hizbullah
Journal abstract Hizbullah uses religion and Islamic jurisprudence in a unique and significant way to achieve pragmatic political and security goals. This illustrates the adaptive and flexible nature of Hizbullah[…]
Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism
Publisher’s description Explores the complex relationship between Christianity and American white nationalists. “Berry’s groundbreaking debut traces the history of the “alt-right”—an offshoot of conservatism that mixes white nationalism and populism—while[…]
