Fundamentalism

Name: Fundamentalism
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ISBN: 9780745623665

ISBN-10: 0745623662

ISBN-13: 9780745623665

Edition: 2001

Authors: Steve Bruce

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This insightful and provocative new study explores the combination of social strains and religious ideas that have produced such fundamentalist movements as the Islamic revolution in Iran and the new Christian Right in the USA.Social science has generally focused on the social circumstances that produce extremist movements and regarded their religious ideologies as window-dressing. This study takes the religious elements of fundamentalism seriously. It explains why some religions are more likely than others to produce fundamentalism and why those movements differ in their willingness to use violence to pursue their goals. Rejecting the idea that fundamentalists are suffering from some kind…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 1/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.396



Acknowledgements


The Nature of The Beast


Modernity: The Great Satan


Islamic Fundamentalism


Fundamentalism in the USA


Fundamentalism: Causes and Consequences