Religious and theocratic ideologies

The landscape of the Middle East has changed dramatically since 2011, as have the political arena and the discourse around democracy.

After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, those in London and Madrid, and the arrest of the “Toronto 18,” Canadians have changed how they think about terrorism and security.

In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the International Declaration of Human Rights, a document designed to hold both individuals and nations accountable for their treatment of fellow human beings, regardless of religious or cultural affiliations.

James Crossley holds a mirror up to English politics, examining how Christianity is often used to legitimise ideological positions and parties.

This book offers an in-depth study of right-wing politics in India by analysing the shifting ideologies of Hindu nationalism and its evolution in the late nineteenth century through to twenty-first century.

Explains why political Islam, which has been part of Turkish politics since the 1970s, has now achieved governing power.

This book argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important, disturbing currents in Western philosophy and intellectual trends.

Classical Debates for the 21st Century distinctively reconsiders the canon of political thought, in the context of current world events, by presenting debates between the ideas of classical theorists.

What is fundamentalism and what does it really amount to?

What kind of decolonial possibilities exist in today's world?

Investigating measurement, mechanisms, and mobilization shows how and why Christian nationalism entered our politics as a partisan project.

An analysis of how African states become radicalizers or demobilizers of their domestic Salafi communities.

Examines how Salafism, a globally influential Muslim movement, is reshaping religious authority in Nigeria, Africa''s most populous country.

This is a disturbing account of the campaign to promote fear and hatred of Muslims in the United States and Europe, from the 'War on Terror' to Trump's travel ban.

The Radical Mind is a groundbreaking analysis of the origins of the Christian Right, whose political victories are radically reshaping the landscape of American society.

Study of church and state in the United States is incredibly complex.

La obra busca comprender la configuración de las ciudadanías y de la participación política en las siguientes iglesias: Iglesia Carismática Internacional, Iglesia de Dios Ministerial de Jesucristo Internacional, Comunidad Cristiana Pantokrator y Movimiento Político Colombia Justa Libres.

Since 2017, Mozambique has been confronted with a jihadi insurgency.

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "e;end of history.

For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one.

Combining ethnographic research with theological analysis, this book explores how the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR), one of the largest new movements within the global Catholic Church, has developed in contemporary Britain and Northern Ireland.

An innovative study of the establishment of ''age'' as a political category in late colonial India.

Structured around key elements at the regional, political, institutional, and personal levels of analysis, this is a complete and forward-leaning view of Hamas that provides a deep and detailed examination of the history, ideology, political prospects, and regional opportunities of an often poorly understood organization that is redefining 21st-century terrorism.

An innovative and provocative study tackling the main assumptions surrounding Israel''s claim to Jewish identity.

This book explains why Islamist parties have dominated the politics of Egypt for the better part of fifty years.

Jocelyne Cesari investigates the relationship between modernization, politics, and Islam in Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Turkey.

Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent.

The al-Qaeda Franchise asks why al-Qaeda adopted a branching-out strategy, introducing seven franchises spread over the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

Combining ethnographic research with theological analysis, this book explores how the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR), one of the largest new movements within the global Catholic Church, has developed in contemporary Britain and Northern Ireland.

An in-depth analysis of modern Islamic martyrdom and its various interpretations, positing martyrdom as a vital component of contemporary identity politics and power struggles.

Study of church and state in the United States is incredibly complex.

An innovative study of the establishment of ''age'' as a political category in late colonial India.

This study reassesses the influence and philosophy of Ibn Taymiyya, one of the greatest medieval Islamic theologians.

Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'.

Formerly one of the largest and most militant Islamic organizations in the Middle East, Egypt’s al-Gama‘ah al-Islamiyah is believed to have played an instrumental role in numerous acts of global terrorism, including the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

This book examines the late twentieth-century rise of the urban, right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology known as metropolitan Hindutva.

Investigates traditionalist struggles about Zionism and the emergence of national-religious Judaism and ultra-Orthodox in the early twentieth century.

This book places the current wave of religion-based terrorism in a historical perspective, explaining why religion is associated with terrorism, comparing religion-based terrorism to other forms of terrorism, and documenting how religion-based terrorism is a product of powerful political, socioeconomic, and psychological forces.

Die weltweite Bedrohung durch religiös motivierten Terrorismus und Gewalt scheint größer zu sein als je zuvor.

British Muslim activism has evolved constantly in recent decades.

Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II.

A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians.

Examines how Salafism, a globally influential Muslim movement, is reshaping religious authority in Nigeria, Africa''s most populous country.