Radicalism and Music offers a convincing argument for music's tranformational impact on the radicalization, reinforcement, and motivational techniques of violent political activists. Based on interviews, email correspondence, concerts, and videos, the book shows how music is exp…
Radicalism and Music offers a convincing argument for music's tranformational impact on the radicalization, reinforcement, and motivational techniques of violent political activists. Based on interviews, email correspondence, concerts, and videos, the book shows how music is exp…
A comparative study of the music cultures of four radical groups.
"L'avènement de l'État islamique a soulevé deux questions majeures, apparemment indépendantes : comment expliquer l'attractivité d'une idéologie djihadiste au sein d'une société tribale ? Comment rendre compte de la fascination que la médiatisation du djihad peut exercer auprès …
Imam Mohammad Tawhidi is a third-generation Iranian-born Australian Muslim Imam and a publicly ordained Islamic authority who comes from a prominent Islamic lineage. His ancestors were the companions of Prophet Mohammad and played a significant role in the early Islamic conquest…
"In this book, Tawhidi takes you on a unique journey detailing the highlights of his life that prompted his transition from an extremist into a reformist. He then emphasizes the theological, jurisprudential and historical difficulties of Islamic thought and Islamic governance, i…
1. Introduction -- 2. Stereotypes, prejudice, economic deprivation and discrimination -- 3. Threats and their consequences -- 4. Culture, social climate and catalyst events -- 5. Individual factors : personality and demographics -- 6. Social identity, polarization and collective…
"No topic has captured the public imagination of late quite so dramatically as the specter of global jihadism. While much has been said about the way jihadists behave, their ideology remains poorly understood. As the Levant has imploded and millenarian radicals claim to have rev…
In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement on poor and working-class families. The urban drama included religious institutions, themselves undergoing fundamental change, that d…
"Unraveling the intertwined histories of Latino radicalism and religion in urban America, this book examines how Latino activists transformed churches into staging grounds for protest against urban renewal and displacement in the 1960s through the 1980s"
In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement on poor and working-class families. The urban drama included religious institutions, themselves undergoing fundamental change, that d…
In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement on poor and working-class families. The urban drama included religious institutions, themselves undergoing fundamental change, that d…
"Thanks to the expanded influence of Muslim Brotherhood operatives and other influential Islamic supremacists, the U.S. government's official counter-terrorism policy has now mutated into something called countering violent extremism (CVE). Words matter. And in the present phase…
"Thanks to the expanded influence of Muslim Brotherhood operatives and other influential Islamic supremacists, the U.S. government's official counter-terrorism policy has now mutated into something called countering violent extremism (CVE). Words matter. And in the present phase…
"In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries revolutionary dissent, political upheaval and social protest spread throughout Europe - and Wales was no exception. In this unique examination of British social history, J.E. Thomas focuses upon the power of the local gentry in Wales, …
On the margins of the biblical canon and on the boundaries of what are traditionally called 'mainstream' Christian communities there have been throughout history writings and movements which have been at odds with the received wisdom and the consensus of establishment opinion. I…