Understanding Religious Fundamentalists: An Introduction - Brossura

Herriot, Peter

 
9781032750149: Understanding Religious Fundamentalists: An Introduction
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ISBN 10: 1032750146 ISBN 13: 9781032750149
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2025

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This book introduces the prominent role that fundamentalists play in religious, cultural, and political arenas.

It begins by investigating religious fundamentalist groups and their psychological motivations for this counter-cultural adherence. Their extremely varied actions, argues the author, are based on two fundamental beliefs: that God speaks to them personally through his Word; and that they are involved in a cosmic war between God and Satan.. Subsequent chapters explore how fundamentalisms meet universal psychological needs for meaning, identity, agency, and self-esteem. Moving from individual psychology to social context, the latter half of the book explores how fundamentalist movements derive and exercise their authority and how leaders may strategise to appeal to external societies. The closing chapters seek to place the growth of fundamentalisms and their continued popularity in the social context of modernity and populism.

With engaging discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, this book is ideal for students of social science and religion, as well as readers interested in the psychological roots of fundamentalism.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Peter Herriot has been an academic and consultant throughout his working life. Most of his work has been in the field of organizational psychology. Since retirement, he has concentrated on the application of social scientific theory and research to the issue of religious fundamentalism. He was brought up in a fundamentalist family.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2025
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1032750146
ISBN 13 
9781032750149
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
126
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9781032750132: Understanding Religious Fundamentalists: An Introduction

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  1032750138 ISBN 13:  9781032750132
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2024
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