ebooks Race and Ethnicity in the United States (8th Edition) by Richard T. Schaefer in History

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After the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States; religious fundamentalism has dominated public debate as never before. Policymakers; educators; and the general public all want to know: Why do fundamentalist movements turn violent? Are fundamentalisms a global threat to human rights; security; and democratic forms of government? What is the future of fundamentalism?To answer questions like these; Strong Religion draws on the results of the Fundamentalism Project; a decade-long interdisciplinary study of antimodernist; antisecular militant religious movements on five continents and within seven world religious traditions. The authors of this study analyze the various social structures; cultural contexts; and political environments in which fundamentalist movements have emerged around the world; from the Islamic Hamas and Hizbullah to the Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries of Northern Ireland; and from the Moral Majority and Christian Coalition of the United States to the Sikh radicals and Hindu nationalists of India. Offering a vividly detailed portrait of the cultures that nourish such movements; Strong Religion opens a much-needed window onto different modes of fundamentalism and identifies the kind of historical events that can trigger them.