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From:Ethnology (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAfter establishing its mission in Copenhagen, Denmark, over ten years ago, the Hasidic group, Chabad, has little success to show for its proselytizing efforts. Yet it is admired and welcomed by the religiously liberal...
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From:Alternatives: Global, Local, Political (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Religion has been used by many scholars as an analytical category and an independent variable to account for the variances in governance and political violence. Very often, religion is decontex-tuafized,...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 52, Issue 25)Byline: RICHARD BYRNE TESTAMENTS OLD AND NEW: Exit polling in November 2004 indicated that "values" played a large part in voters' electoral choices, a result that led some people in politics and the news media to...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English Studies (Vol. 46, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This work touches upon Martin Amis's diagnosis of the Western world and its cultural foundations which seem to have been threatened, as maintained by the author, by a specific form of "deEnlightenment"...
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From:Cross Currents (Vol. 51, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn the Name of Allah, The Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace -- In the Wake of September 11th O who have attained unto faith! Be ever steadfast in upholding equity, bearing witness to the truth for the sake of God,...
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From:Journal of Women's History (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBronwyn Winter's thought-provoking and timely article offers a measured feminist critique of the study of women and fundamentalisms. It compels those of us who have previously written on Islamic fundamentalism to...
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From:Journal of International Affairs (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Islamic revolution of 1979 was the result of a grand coalition of diverse forces united against the ancient regime. (1) Although the religious dimension eventually became supreme, the revolutionary process was much...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 132, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the quarter century since the Iranian Revolution took much of the world by surprise--not least in the way its religious leadership mobilized a genuinely popular uprising--many commentators in the West have been...
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From:ORBIS (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDuring a recent public debate over the role of science and religion in history, Dr. Steven Weinberg remarked that, although religion had done some good in the world, "its influence on balance has been awful. With or...
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From:The Ecologist (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedGlobalisation can best be described as economic totalitarianism - a totalitarianism that is leading to another frightening extreme in the form of fundamentalism. Globalisation and Fundamentalism Fundamentalism and...
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From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 113, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis paper examines and compares four major intellectual trends of Islamic thought in the period from the mid-eighteenth to the mid- nineteenth century. It characterizes the works of the Arabian Muhammad Ibn Abd...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 61, Issue 29)Byline: Aisha Labi In February, the news that "Jihadi John," a de facto spokesman for the so-called Islamic State, had grown up in a middle-class family in England and graduated from a London university was a...
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 260)Oubrou also makes the passing remark that the radicalized young Muslims are "heirs to the soixantehuitarde education." In French culture, soixante-huitard (sixty-eighter) serves as a catch-all term for the cultural...
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From:Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies (Vol. 14, Issue 41) Peer-ReviewedThe multiplicity of Islamic interpretations is reflected in the heterogeneous nature of the Romanian Muslim communities. The internal fragmentation and disunity of Muslim communities, intra-Islamic difficulties,...
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From:Journal of Psychology and Christianity (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe contemporary serpent handlers of Appalachia are a fundamentalist sect that continues to practice a sign that they believe both Jesus and his apostles exemplified: the handling of serpents. Based on the King James...
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From:Insight Turkey (Vol. 14, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhat happens when an ideological movement whose raison d'etre is to challenge the existing political system and government structure, and one that gains its identity and character from criticizing power, takes control...
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From:William and Mary Law Review (Vol. 49, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Over the past few decades, principles of theocratic governance have gained enormous public support in developing polities worldwide. The countries experiencing this resurgence of religious fundamentalism...
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From:Humanist in Canada (Issue 125) Peer-ReviewedReprintad from The Atheist January, 1997. A talk given by this well-known writer and champion of human rights in Bangladesh at the recent Humanist World Congress in Mexico City Wondering whether I should...
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From:Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (Vol. 12, Issue 1-2)Despite claims of inclusiveness and having moved beyond absolutes, critics have observed that postmodern, reconceptualist, and critical theorists can be as fundamentalist in enacting their beliefs as the political and...
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From:Harvard Theological Review (Vol. 104, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe stories of these men and women come to me firsthand, in the thousands of pages of memoirs they have written for me and in the hundreds of hours of conversation we have shared. I discovered their names in the alumni...