Religious Fundamentalism: Global, Local and Personal

ISBN-13: 9780415422093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 325 str.

Peter Herriot

Opis

Providing a comprehensive social scientific perspective on a subject of contemporary significance, this book looks at how religious fundamentalism is a type of belief system, a social phenomenon, a cultural product and a global phenomenon.

Spis treści

Introduction.  1. Fundamentalism is Global. Case Study: Al-Qaida: A Global Fundamentalist Movement.  2. Cultures and Fundamentalisms. Case Study: Civil and Fundamentalist Religion in Bush’s America.  3. Fundamentalisms as Social Movements. Case Study: Gush Emunim: A Nationalist Fundamentalist Movement.  4. Fundamentalist Organisations. Case Study: The Home School Movement and its Organisations.  5. Groups of Fundamentalists. Case Study: Islamic Terrorist Cells.  6. A Central Identity. Case Study: Sayeed Qutb: Ideologue and Martyr.  7. Fundamentalist Beliefs: Process and Contents. Case Study: Reconstructionism: The Theology of Dominion.  8. Fundamentalist Values and Attitudes. Case Study: Friends of their Enemy’s Enemy: The Neturei Karta.  9. Fundamentalist Behaviour: Its Effect on Them and Us. Case Study: Different Perspectives: Jack Straw and the niqab.  10. Fundamentalism is Very Different. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.

O autorze

Peter Herriothas been an academic and consultant throughout his working life. Most of his work has been in the field of organizational psychology, specializing in personnel selection, career management, and the employment relationship. Since retirement he has concentrated on the application of social scientific theory and research to the profoundly important current issue of religious fundamentalism. He was himself brought up in a fundamentalist family.