Religion and Extremism

Rejecting Diversity

Prof Douglas Pratt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-9224-5 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Douglas Pratt argues that despite a popular focus on Islam, extremist Jews and Christians can also enact terror and destruction. Religion and Extremism stresses that the ideological rejection of diversity underlies religious extremism resulting in violent behaviours and, increasingly, in hardening social and religious attitudes and responses.

An analysis of religiously-driven terrorism reveals the presence of a distinctive and rigid form of exclusivity found in these religions. In this regard, the contemporary resurgence in totalising claims of fundamentalist ideologues is cause for particular concern. Pratt reasons that however expressed, the motif of the ‘Absolute’ is central to all, but how that absolute is and has been received, interpreted and responded to, is a matter of great diversity. The author asserts that theological ‘Absolutism’ displays an underlying dynamic whereby these three religions may be led into extremism. Religion and Extremism also explores contemporary issues of Islamophobia and mutual extremism, identified as ‘reactive co-radicalization’, and concludes by reflecting on how extremism today might be countered.

Douglas Pratt is Professor of Studies in Religion at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and Adjunct Professor of Theology and Interreligious Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is an Associate of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and the New Zealand Associate, UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations Asia – Pacific.

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Accommodating Diversity: paradigms and patterns
3. Diversity Resisted: exclusion and fundamentalism
4. Texts of Terror: scriptural motifs for extremism
5. The Jewish experience of extremism
6. Forms of Christian extremism
7. Trajectories of Islamic extremism
8. Mutual extremism: reactive co-radicalization
9. Extremism and Islamophobia
10. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	321 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4742-9224-0 / 1474292240
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-9224-5 / 9781474292245
Zustand	Neuware