Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World Critical Social and Political Issues |
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| Editor:
| Saha, Santosh C. |
| Contribution by:
| Abadi, Jacob
Agadjanian, Alexander
Husain, Zohair
Jelen, Ted G.
Land, Graeme Suart
Rosenbaum, David
Rosser, Yvette Claire
Sinha, Dipankar
Sonn, Tamara
Tummala, Krishna K.
Wee, Vivienne |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7391-0760-7 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2003 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $162.95 |
Book Description:
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Today new and ever more pernicious forms of terrorist violence threaten the world. Because these new forms of violence are so often linked to religious radicalism, modern terrorism has challenged the secular ethics of contemporary civil society. There is a pressing need to understand modern religious movements that have added militancy and belligerence as fundamental elements of religious practice. Contributors to this volume painstakingly tackle the question of how to define the...
More DescriptionToday new and ever more pernicious forms of terrorist violence threaten the world. Because these new forms of violence are so often linked to religious radicalism, modern terrorism has challenged the secular ethics of contemporary civil society. There is a pressing need to understand modern religious movements that have added militancy and belligerence as fundamental elements of religious practice. Contributors to this volume painstakingly tackle the question of how to define the contours of current religious fundamentalism as they examine the private and public postures of fundamentalist rhetoric, the importance of its regional variants, and the damage it can do to regional and national education systems.