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Religious Fundamentalism and
Political Extremism Editors: Leonard Weinberg, Ami Pedahzur |
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Contributors to this
volume explore the relationships between fundamentalist religious belief,
political extremism and outbreaks of religiously inspired violence. Is the
post-Cold War world increasingly violent, and is this violence the result of
increasingly strident religious understandings of how societies should be
organized? The contributors to this volume do not always agree on the answers
to these questions. But they do agree the questions themselves are among the
most important to be posed in the early years of the twenty-first century. The editors, Leonard
Weinberg and Ami Pedahzur are,
respectively, Foundation Professor of Political Science at the |
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