Christian Fundamentalism in America
Journal abstract Fundamentalism has a very specific meaning in the history of American Christianity, as the name taken by a coalition of mostly white, mostly northern Protestants who, in the[…]
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Is the Tea Party a “Religious” Movement? Religiosity in the Tea Party versus the Religious Right
Journal abstract Since the Tea Party Movement (TPM) emerged, observers have drawn parallels between this movement and the Religious Right (RR). This article deepens our understanding of this relationship by[…]
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Beyond Conversion: Socio-Mental Flexibility and Multiple Religious Participation in African-Derived Lukumi and Ifa
Journal abstract Despite recent attention to issues of religious diversification, mobility, and multiplicity, few sociologists have attended to the socio-cognitive dimensions of multiple religious participation. Sociologists have long suggested that[…]
The Politics of Iconoclasm: Religion, Violence and the Culture of Image-Breaking in Christianity and Islam
Publisher’s description From false idols and graven images to the tombs of kings and the shrines of capitalism, the targeted destruction of cities, sacred sites and artefacts for religious, political[…]
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Political Engagement Meets the Prosperity Gospel: African American Christian Zionism and Black Church Politics
Journal abstract How do religion and race affect political engagement in black churches? Studies of black church-based politics typically use religious frameworks of emancipation in the form of social gospels,[…]
Religion and Crime: A Systematic Review and Assessment of Next Steps
Journal abstract Over the last twenty years researchers have given a lot of attention to the relationship between religion and crime, finding that religion tends to have a deterring influence[…]
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Violence and the World’s Religious Traditions: An Introduction
Publisher’s description Though much has been written about particular forms of violence related to religion, such as sacrificial rites and militant martyrdom, there have been few efforts to survey the[…]
The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics
Publisher’s description Over the past three decades, scholars, government analysts and terrorism experts have examined the relationship between Islam and politics. But specialists have tended to limit their analysis to[…]
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Framing the Christian Right: How Progressives and Post-War Liberals Constructed the Religious Right
Journal abstract The Christian Right is the most anticipated social movement in American history. Decades before Catholics and conservative evangelicals ended centuries of antagonism by cooperating on social issues, an[…]
Being German, Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe
Publisher’s description Every year more and more Europeans, including Germans, are embracing Islam. It is estimated that there are now up to one hundred thousand German converts—a number similar to[…]
Disengagement from Political Violence and Deradicalization: A Narrative-Dialogical Perspective20 April, 2018
Subjectivity in detection of radicalisation and violent extremism: a youth worker’s perspective19 April, 2018- Peacebuilding Beyond Terrorism? Revisiting the Narratives of the Basque Conflict18 April, 2018
Radicalization to Violence: A Pathway Approach to Studying Extremism17 April, 2018