Religiös fundamentalism

The Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise on witchcraft. It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486.

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»Intressant och lättläst« Litteraturmagazinet »Väl underbyggd och bra flyt« Populär historia Det var en vacker, klar höstmorgon som för alltid skulle förändra historien. Runt om i världen följde miljontals chockerade tv-tittare hur två skyskrapor ...

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Maja tvingades knacka dörr och predika jordens undergång. Agnes levde hela tiden med skräcken för demoner. Leo blev bortgift som sjuttonåring och hans uppväxt fylldes av djävulsutdrivningar och hot. Sandra utsattes för misshandel och grov omsorgss...

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Sommaren 2014 utropar Islamiska staten ett nytt kalifat i delar av Syrien och Irak. Inför en chockerad omvärld erövrar terrorgruppen enorma landområden och skapar ett brutalt styre med offentliga avrättningar och systematiska våldtäkter. Samtidigt...

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Dispensational Modernism reexamines the origins of dispensationalism in early American fundamentalism, emphasizing the role of scientific rhetoric and engineering methods in developing new methods for interpreting the Bible and understanding the n...

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The Malleus Maleficarum is a seminal treatise regarding witchcraft and demons, presented here complete with an authoritative translation to modern English by Montague Summers. At the time this book was published in 1487, the Christian church had c...

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A scholar and advisor to the Pentagon explains the religious motivations of terrorists, and tells why suicide missions may be rational and pleasurable for them.

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The creator of the popular Formerly Fundie blog on Patheos explains how the "American Christianity" we are currently taught is actually a fear-saturated distortion of biblical faith. Benjamin L. Corey thought he was suffering a crisis of...

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This volume analyses some of their main effects on public debates in Europe following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France in 2015. Based on quantitative and qualitative analyses covering France, Germany, Italy, and the UK, Discursive Turns and Cri...

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Why People Radicalize provides an in-depth analysis of how perceptions of unfairness can lead individuals and groups to develop radical convictions and sympathy for extremism and terrorism. Accessible for scientists, professionals, and practitione...

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Lilian Calles Barger offers the first complete history of the liberation theology movement. Liberationists built a trans-American intellectual movement to represent those marginalized by modern politics and religion by virtue of race, class, or se...

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In The March of Unreason, Dick Taverne argues cogently that pessimism and distrust of science and technology has become rife in society, combined with the growth of irrationality and practices unsupported by evidence, such as alternative medicine....

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The 'preferential option for the poor' - the idea that the poor and helpless have a claim to special consideration from society - has been one of the most significant developments in twentieth-century Christian theology. The essays in this volume ...

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Modern scholarship in several disciplines makes it clear that the Bible and the Quran were authored by humans, not least because of their internal inconsistencies. Nevertheless, fundamentalists -- some of them highly educated professionals -- pers...

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Many Americans today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religious right. Controversial decisions by the government are met with hundreds of lobbyists, millions of dollars of advertising spending, and a powerful ...

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Seventh-Day Adventists, Melanesian cargo cults, David Koresh's Branch Davidians, and the Raelian UFO religion would seem to have little in common. What these groups share, however, is a millennial orientation-the audacious human hope for a collect...

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As both a clinical psychologist and an authority on comparative religion, James W. Jones is uniquely qualified to address the increasingly urgent issue of religious terrorism. Research on the psychology of violence shows that several factors work ...

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George Eldon Ladd was a pivotal figure in the resurgence of evangelical scholarship in America during the years after the Second World War. Ladd's career as a biblical scholar can be seen as a quest to rehabilitate evangelical thought both in cont...

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This volume surveys the state of the discipline on topics of greatest importance to evangelical theology. Each chapter has been written by a theologian or scholar who is widely recognized for his or her published work and is considered a leading t...

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This penetrating book sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. What accounts for the violence that emerges among some fundamentalist groups? The contributors to this book...

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This is the first comprehensive study of the competing memories of Aum Shinrikyo's religious terrorism. Interrogating an array of primary sources including original interviews with victims and ex-members, this book reveals how clashing representat...

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What we know today as evangelicalism originated in a series of great revivals in the mid-eighteenth century. Inward Baptism demonstrates how the rationale for the "new birth," the characteristic and indispensable evangelical experience, developed ...

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Liberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world. Despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of liberal political thought from a Christian theological perspective. Song discusses the different appr...

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`Fundamentalism' is a label used often pejoratively of religious conservatism. Evangelicals are growing in number and power around the world and are frequently regarded as fundamentalist. This volume examines fundamentalism as a mentality which ha...

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This authoritative volume offers the fullest account to date of Christian fundamentalism, its origins in the nineteenth century, and its development up to the present day. It looks at the movement in global terms and through a number of key subjec...

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This volume assesses the German liberal theological tradition in the early years of the 20th century, concentrating on the work of Ernst Troeltsch. It locates theology in its social and political context, and seeks to understand the period on its ...

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Through a detailed study of the sexually-charged rhetoric of one of America's largest conservative women's organizations, Concerned Women for America (CWA), Righteous Rhetoric argues that the absolute, ordered platforms for which CWA is known are ...

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This groundbreaking work presents the first sustained discussion of the connections between two quintessentially American traditions: liberation theology and pragmatism. It explores the dynamic relationship between the aesthetic and ethical dimens...

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Markku Ruotsila's Fighting Fundamentalist restores the controversial fundamentalist pastor and broadcaster Carl McIntire to his place as one of the most influential religious leaders in twentieth-century United States and one of the principal foun...

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The story of Saladin's recapture of the Holy City of Jerusalem from the Crusaders at the Battle of Hattin in 1187. A pivotal battle in the history of the Crusades - and in the subsequent history of the Middle East and the Muslim world.

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