Understanding Religious Fundamentalists

Author : Peter C. Hill
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781593851507
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism written by Peter C. Hill and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents an innovative psychological framework for understanding religious fundamentalism. Blending extensive research and incisive analysis, the highly regarded authors distinguish fundamentalist traditions from other faith-based groups and illuminate the thinking and behavior of believers. Offering respectful, historically informed examinations of several major fundamentalist groups, the volume challenges many commonly held stereotypes. In the process, it stakes out important new terrain for the psychological study of religion" -- BOOK JACKET.

Author : Richard T. Antoun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742562097
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Understanding Fundamentalism written by Richard T. Antoun and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALLY - A FINANCIAL BOOK THAT KIDS LOVE "Barry Gets A Dollar" is an easy-to-read book that starts the learning process for children to be financially responsible at an early age. They'll love to read this book every night before bed, if not more "Barry Gets A Dollar" is designed to teach children the most important pillar for financial literacy - SAVING MONEY

Author : Peter Herriot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134101600
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Religious Fundamentalism written by Peter Herriot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a religious fundamentalist come to embrace a counter-cultural world view? Fundamentalism can be analysed from a variety of perspectives. It is a type of belief system which enables individuals to make sense of their lives and provides them with an identity. It is a social phenomenon, in which strictly religious people act according to the norms, values, and beliefs of the group to which they belong. It is a cultural product, in the sense that different cultural settings result in different forms of fundamentalism. And it is a global phenomenon, in the obvious sense that it is to be found everywhere, and also because it is both a reaction against, and also a part of, the globalising modern world. Religious Fundamentalism deals with all of these four levels of analysis, uniquely combining sociological and psychological perspectives, and relating them to each other. Each chapter is followed by a lengthy case study, and these range from a close textual analysis of George W. Bush’s second inaugural speech through to a treatment of Al-Qaida as a global media event. This book provides a comprehensive social scientific perspective on a subject of immense contemporary significance, and should be of use both to university students and also to students of the contemporary world.

Author : Peter Herriot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032750149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Understanding Religious Fundamentalists written by Peter Herriot and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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. 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"--

Author : George Marsden
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802805393
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism written by George Marsden and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balanced overview and narrative survey of American fundamentalism and Evangelicalism, as well as an interpretive analysis of several important themes. PB, 208 pages, suitable as a supplemental text for colleges, seminaries, or church study.

Author : Peter Herriot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317724100
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Religious Fundamentalism and Social Identity written by Peter Herriot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in the United States of September 11th, 2001 brought the phenomenon of religious fundamentalism to the world's attention.Sociological research has clearly demonstrated that fundamentalists are primarily reacting against modernity, and believe that they are fighting for the very survival of their faith against the secular enemy. But we understand very little about how and why people join fundamentalist movements and embrace a set of beliefs, values and norms of behaviour which are counter-cultural. This is essentially a question for social psychology, since it involves both social relations and individual selves. Drawing on a broad theoretical perspective, social identity theory, Peter Herriot addresses two key questions: why do fundamentalists identify themselves as an in-group fighting against various out-groups? And how do the psychological needs for self-esteem and meaning motivate them? Case studies of Mohammed Atta, the leader of the 9/11 hijackers, and of the current controversy in the Anglican Church about gay priests and bishops, demonstrate how fruitfully this theory can be applied to fundamentalist conflicts. It also offers psychologically sensible ways of managing such conflicts, rather than treating fundamentalists as an enemy to be defeated. Religious Fundamentalism and Social Identity is unique in applying social identity theory to fundamentalism, and rare in that it provides psychological (in addition to sociological) analyses of the phenomenon. It is a valuable resource for courses in social psychology which seek to demonstrate the applicability of social psychological theory to the real world.

Author : Douglas Carl Abrams
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820322940
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Selling the Old-time Religion written by Douglas Carl Abrams and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between Protestant fundamentalists and mass culture is often considered complex and ambiguous. Selling the Old-Time Religion examines this relationship and shows how the first generation of fundamentalists embraced the modern business and entertainment techniques of marketing, advertising, drama, film, radio, and publishing to spread the gospel. Selectively, and with more sophistication than has been accorded to them, fundamentalists adapted to the consumer society and popular culture with the accompanying values of materialism and immediate gratification, despite the seeming conflict between these values and certain tenets of their religious beliefs. Selling the Old-Time Religion is written by a fundamentalist who is based at the country's foremost fundamentalist institute of higher education. It is a candid and remarkable piece of scholarship that reveals from the inside the movement's first encounters with some of the media methods it now wields with well-documented virtuosity. Carl Abrams draws extensively on sermons, popular journals, and educational archives to reveal the attitudes and actions of the fundamental leadership and the laity. Abrams discusses how fundamentalists' outlook toward contemporary trends and events shifted from aloofness to engagement as they moved inward from the margins of American culture and began to weigh in on the day's issues--from jazz to "flappers"--in large numbers. Fundamentalists in the 1920s and 1930s "were willing to compromise certain traditions that defined the movement, such as premillennialism, holiness, and defense of the faith," Abrams concludes, "but their flexibility with forms of consumption and pleasure strengthened their evangelistic emphasis, perhaps the movement's core." Contrary to the myth of fundamentalism's demise after the Scopes Trial, the movement's uses of mass culture help explain their success in the decades following it. In the end fundamentalists imitated mass culture not to be like the world but to evangelize it.

Author : Carlene Cross
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202947
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fleeing Fundamentalism written by Carlene Cross and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the distance between church and state is narrowing and the teaching of intelligent design is being proposed for our classrooms, it is startling and provocative to hear the reasoned voice of a dissident from inside the church. For Carlene Cross, arriving at this shift in belief was a long and torturous journey. In Fleeing Fundamentalism, Cross looks back at the life that led her to marry a charismatic young man who appeared destined for greatness as a minister within the fundamentalist church. Their marriage, which began with great hope and promise, started to crumble when she realized that her husband had fallen victim to the same demons that had plagued his youth. When efforts to hold their family together failed, she left the church and the marriage, despite the condemnation of the congregation and the anger of many she had considered friends. Once outside, she realized that the secular world was not the seething cauldron of corruption and sin she had believed, and found herself questioning the underpinnings of the fundamentalist faith. Here is an eloquent and compelling story of faith lost and regained. Certain to be controversial, it is also a brave and hopeful plea for greater tolerance and understanding.

Author : Stewart G. Cole
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725223015
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The History of Fundamentalism written by Stewart G. Cole and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David S. New
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490985
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Christian Fundamentalism in America written by David S. New and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the United States is plagued with cultural and political polarization--the Reds and the Blues. Because religion has been of great significance in America right from the first colonists who believed themselves to be God's chosen nation, it is not surprising that religion constitutes the basis of today's dichotomy. The recent resurgence of Christian fundamentalism is significant for the future of America as a nation "under God." This book examines the history of conservative American Christianity as it interacts with liberal beliefs. With the Enlightenment, the Puritan sense of mission faded, but was rekindled with the Great Awakening. This religious movement unified the colonies and provided an animating ideal which led to revolution against Britain. But soon after, the forces of liberalism made inroads, and the seeds of division were planted. This balanced account favors neither conservative nor liberal. It is history with a human touch, emphasizing personalities from Jonathan Edwards and William Jennings Bryan to David Koresh and Jim Jones.