Contributions

  • Karabenick, Stuart A. - Contributor

Publication

2014 - Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

79,000 words, Guess

Page Count

316 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10160846380X
  • ISBN-139781608463800
  • OCLC Control Number859046470
  • Better World Books9781608463800
  • Open LibraryOL28391929M

Classifications

  • DDC200.956/09051
  • LCCBL1060 .M63 2014
  • LCCBL1060

Description

"In Religious Fundamentalism in the Middle East, Moaddel and Karabenick analyze fundamentalist beliefs and attitudes across nations (Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia), faith (Christianity and Islam), and ethnicity (Azari-Turks, Kurds, and Persians among Iranians), using comparative survey data. For them, fundamentalism is not just a set of religious beliefs. It is rather a set of beliefs about and attitudes toward whatever religious beliefs one has. In this analysis, the authors show that fundamentalist beliefs and attitudes vary across national contexts and individual characteristics, and predict people's orientation toward the same set of historical issues that were the concerns of fundamentalist intellectual leaders and activists. The authors' analysis reveals a "cycle of spirituality" that reinforces the critical importance of taking historical and cultural contexts into consideration to understand the role of religious fundamentalism in contemporary Middle Eastern societies"--Page 4 of cover.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Studies in critical social sciences

Other Editions

  • Religious fundamentalism in the Middle EastHaymarket Books2014

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