Populism, Fundamentalism, and Identity: Fighting Talk

ISBN-13: 9783030425111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 157 str.

Peter Herriot

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter 1. What’s the issue? Modernity, reaction, and self

Chapter 2. What are they? Populism and fundamentalism

Chapter 3. Who am I? The self

Chapter 4. Who are we? Social identity

Chapter 5. Who are they? The other

Chapter 6. What’s the story? Fighting talk

Chapter 7. Who’s in charge? Leaders and led

Chapter 8. What’s the secret? The role of technology

Chapter 9. What to do? Common sense solutions

Chapter 10. Prescriptions or pressure points?

Chapter 11. When reality dawns

Chapter 12. When ‘Us’ cracks up

Chapter 13. When ‘They’ answer back

O autorze

Peter Herriot was Professor of Organizational Psychology in the UK. Since retirement he has applied social and organizational psychology to religious fundamentalism, having himself been brought up in a fundamentalist family. His recent books include Religious Fundamentalism: Global, Local, and Personal (2008) and The Open Brethren: A Christian Sect in the Modern World (2018).

Blurb

What can populism and fundamentalism possibly have in common? Peter Herriot argues that contrary to their apparent differences, these human phenomena are similar in two basic respects. First, they are both reactions against the complexities of the modern world in general, and its current crisis in particular. They propose instead a return to a mythical golden age, supposedly marked by purity and simplicity. Second, they both work in the same way psychologically. Using social identity theory, Herriot shows how both populism and fundamentalism create constant conflict by contrasting a virtuous ‘Us’ with a stereotypically evil ‘Them’. Contemporary case studies illustrate this process at work, and Herriot raises various issues as a basis for discussion, and concludes with hope.