"Dramatic events in Somalia between June and December 2006 included the rise and fall of a radical Islamic movement, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which attracted global attention to the strategic area of the Horn of Africa. In this volume, Shaul Shay analyzes the background a…
Discusses the conspiracy of religious extremists in the Holy Land and their efforts to bring about the end of the world in our time.
"Nicht alle Salafisten sind Terroristen, aber alle uns bekannten islamistischen Terrorverdächtigen haben einen salafistischen Hintergrund."So beschreiben deutsche Innenpolitiker ein wachsendes Problem: Junge Menschen brechen auf, um in den Krieg nach Syrien oder in den Irak zu z…
This volume explores the relationships between fundamentalist religious belief, political extremism and outbreaks of religiously inspiredviolence.
In Trying Biology, Adam R. Shapiro dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial. Most view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion. Countering this, Shapiro shows the importance of timing: the Scopes trial occurred…
Embodied Violence is a major investigation into the myriad of ways in which societies play out the struggle for cultural identity on women's bodies. Focusing on communal violence, it explores how such violence reconfigures women's experiences, facilitates the formation of partic…
by Nanda, Meera
fromReadings (Three Essays Press)
by Nanda, Meera
fromReadings (Three Essays Press)
"This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national nor religious boundaries. Benjamin A. Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric religious movement whose current power and influence makes headlines and generates no small amount of shock in Brazil and the Uni…
"This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national nor religious boundaries. Benjamin A. Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric religious movement whose current power and influence makes headlines and generates no small amount of shock in Brazil and the Uni…
"This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national nor religious boundaries. Benjamin A. Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric religious movement whose current power and influence makes headlines and generates no small amount of shock in Brazil and the Uni…
"This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national nor religious boundaries. Benjamin A. Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric religious movement whose current power and influence makes headlines and generates no small amount of shock in Brazil and the Uni…
"The late twentieth century has witnessed the emergence of an unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon: Islamist political movements. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted against the regimes in power throughout the Muslim world and exacerbated political conflicts ever…
To oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the United States formed an extraordinary anti-communist alliance with militant Islamic forces in South Asia. In this controversial book, John Cooley provides the first behind-the-scenes account of this alliance and of how th…
