This paper elucidates the two ideologies that fundamentally lead to failure of regimes and often weakened state: tribalism religious fundamentalism. Both its social bed is same have a key role in returning Taliban after 2001. Except for external supportive factors Taliban, internal factors, fundamentalism fund hegemonic resources such as Mullahs (clergies) Madrasas are extremely rooted society ...

W e live in turbulent times. Our epoch is characterized by startling advances on the one hand and conditions of extreme socioeconomic retrogression and distress on the other. Social development is severely uneven and yet deeply intertwined. This has created unexpected convulsions which are exploding across the planet. Both a consequence and a cause of this turbulence is a resurgence of religion...

This paper presents a theoretical framework to understand the relationship between religious fundamentalist communities and the Internet, through addressing four dimensions of tensions and challenges: hierarchy, patriarchy, discipline, and seclusion. We develop the concept of cultured technology, and analyze the ways communities reshape technology and make it as part of the ir culture, while on...

Empirical research on fundamentalist biographies—presented are three case studies and a summary of research results—demonstrate the complex biographical-motivational factors for fundamentalist turns, but also a transformational potential. Explaining fundamentalist conversion and deconversion within a theoretical framework of fundamentalism as “modern anti-modernism” and as “dislocation of relig...

Caroline Fourest is a French feminist writer, film director, journalist, radio presenter at France Culture, and co-founder editor of the magazine ProChoix. She has been columnist with Charlie Hebdo Le Monde written several influential essays on political religious right in US. author biography far-right politician Marine Pen number books including In Praise Blasphemy: Why Not ‘Islamophobic’, Br...

ISSN: 1864–1385 Explaining Prejudice toward Americans and Europeans in Egypt: Closed-mindedness and Conservatism Mediate Effects of Religious Fundamentalism Friederike Sadowski, Psychology Department, University of Konstanz, Germany, and Department of Mental Health Services, Office of Corrections, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland Gerd Bohner, Institute of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germa...

Abstract Is Islam a religion that promotes patriarchy? In the academic debate, there are different assessments. On one hand, is thesis of an elective affinity between and patriarchal values. Muslim-majority countries among Muslims, support for values most pronounced. other antithesis Islamic feminism, which shows significant proportion devout Muslims gender equality. It therefore wrong to descr...