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This book constitutes a journey into the obscure field of
sectarian-guided discourses of radical Islamist groups. It provides
new insights into the ideological mechanisms utilized by such
organizations to incite sectarian conflicts and recruit local and
foreign guardians to their alleged cause. This book examines
diverse aspects and dimensions of the discourses of Sunni-based
ISIS and Shia-based al-Hashd al-Shaabi and explores manipulative
and ideological discursive strategies utilized by media outlets
associated with these groups. It delves into linguistic and
contextual activities, implicit and explicit messages within the
discourses of various media outlets operating in the heart of the
Middle East. It also scrutinizes and explains aspects of
politicization, religionization and sectarianization within the
media discourse of terrorist groups in the digital era.
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Mob Rule
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Jake Jacobs
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Concerns about CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear)
weapons have featured prominently in both political debates and
media reporting about the ongoing threat from al Qaeda since 9/11.
This book provides a chronological account of al Qaeda's efforts to
acquire a CBRN weapon capability, and the evolution of the al Qaeda
leadership's approach to actually using CBRN weapons, set against
the context of the politicisation of the threat of CBRN terrorism
in US security debates. Ben Cole explores how the inherently
political nature of terrorist CBRN threats has helped to shape al
Qaeda's approach to CBRN weapons, and shows how the heightened
political sensitivities surrounding the threat have enabled some
governments to manipulate it in order to generate domestic and
international support for controversial policies, particularly the
2003 invasion of Iraq. He assesses the relative success of the al
Qaeda leadership's political approach to CBRN weapons, together
with the relative success of efforts by the US, UK and Russian
governments to exploit the al Qaeda CBRN threat for their wider
political purposes. Shedding new light on al Qaeda's tactics and
strategy, this book will be essential reading for scholars of
terrorism and extremism studies.
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Breathe Again
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Trena D. Stephenson; Foreword by Yolanda Powell
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'This is Irish history seen anew, from below, bristling with
practical lessons for working-class struggle today' - Eamonn McCann
The 32 counties of Ireland were divided through imperial terror and
gerrymandering. Partition was borne from a Tory strategy to defend
the British Empire and has spawned a 'carnival of reaction' in
Irish politics ever since. Over the last 100 years, conservative
forces have dominated both states offering religious identity as a
diversion from economic failures and inequality. Through a sharp
analysis of the history of partition, Kieran Allen rejects the view
that the 'two cultures' of Catholic and Protestant communities lock
people into permanent antagonism. Instead, the sectarian states
have kept its citizens divided through political and economic
measures like austerity, competition for reduced services and low
wages. Overturning conventional narratives, 32 Counties evokes the
tradition of James Connolly and calls for an Irish unity movement
from below to unite the North and the Republic into a secular,
socialist and united Ireland.
Why does religion inspire hatred? Why do people in one religion
sometimes hate people of another religion, and also why do some
religions inspire hatred from others? This book shows how scholarly
studies of prejudice, identity formation, and genocide studies can
shed light on global examples of religious hatred. The book is
divided into four parts, focusing respectively on: theories of
prejudice and violence; historical developments of antisemitism,
Islamophobia, and race; contemporary Western antisemitism and
Islamophobia; and, prejudices beyond the West in the Islamic,
Buddhist, and Hindu traditions. Each part ends with a special focus
section. Key features include: - A compelling synthesis of theories
of prejudice, identity, and hatred to explain Islamophobia and
antisemitism. - An innovative theory of human violence and genocide
which explains the link to prejudice. - Case studies of both
Western antisemitism and Islamophobia in history and today,
alongside global studies of Islamic antisemitism and Hindu and
Buddhist Islamophobia - Integrates discussion of race and
racialisation as aspects of Islamophobic and antisemitic prejudice
in relation to their framing in religious discourses. - Accessible
for general readers and students, it can be employed as a textbook
for students or read with benefit by scholars for its novel
synthesis and theories. The book focuses on antisemitism and
Islamophobia, both in the West and beyond, including examples of
prejudices and hatred in the Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist
traditions. Drawing on examples from Europe, North America, MENA,
South and Southeast Asia, and Africa, Paul Hedges points to common
patterns, while identifying the specifics of local context.
Religious Hatred is an essential guide for understanding the
historical origins of religious hatred, the manifestations of this
hatred across diverse religious and cultural contexts, and the
strategies employed by activists and peacemakers to overcome this
hatred.
Though many scholars and commentators have predicted the death of
religion, the world is more religious today than ever before. And
yet, despite the persistence of religion, it remains a woefully
understudied phenomenon. With Objective Religion, Baylor University
Press and Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion have combined
forces to gather select articles from the Interdisciplinary Journal
of Research on Religion that not only highlight the journal's
wide-ranging and diverse scope, but also advance the field through
a careful arrangement of topics with ongoing relevance, all treated
with scientific objectivity and the respect warranted by matters of
faith. This multivolume project seeks to advance our understanding
of religion and spirituality in general as well as particular
religious beliefs and practices. The volume thereby serves as a
catalyst for future studies of religion from diverse disciplines
and fields of inquiry including sociology, psychology, political
science, demography, economics, philosophy, ethics, history,
medicine, population health, epidemiology, and theology. The
articles in this volume, Competition, Tension, and Perseverance,
document the pervasiveness of religion and demonstrate the complex
ways faith, spirituality, and religious matters are consequential
for individuals as well as societies across the world. Together
these essays demonstrate the resilience of religion.
This is the first work in any language that offers both an
overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews
viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet
Jewish family. It is also the first study to examine Jewish life in
the Northern Caucasus, a Soviet region that history scholars have
rarely addressed. Drawing on a collection of family letters, Kiril
Feferman provides a history of the Ginsburgs as they debate whether
to evacuate their home of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia and are
eventually swept away by the Soviet-German War, the German invasion
of Soviet Russia, and the Holocaust. The book makes a significant
contribution to the history of the Holocaust and Second World War
in the Soviet Union, presenting one Soviet region as an
illustration of wartime social and media politics.
In the United States, people are deeply divided along lines of
race, class, political party, gender, sexuality, and religion. Many
believe that historical grievances must eventually be left behind
in the interest of progress toward a more just and unified society.
But too much in American history is unforgivable and cannot be
forgotten. How then can we imagine a way to live together that does
not expect people to let go of their entrenched resentments? Living
with Hate in American Politics and Religion offers an innovative
argument for the power of playfulness in popular culture to make
our capacity for coexistence imaginable. Jeffrey Israel explores
how people from different backgrounds can pursue justice together,
even as they play with their divisive grudges, prejudices, and
desires in their cultural lives. Israel calls on us to distinguish
between what belongs in a raucous "domain of play" and what belongs
in the domain of the political. He builds on the thought of John
Rawls and Martha Nussbaum to defend the liberal tradition against
challenges posed by Frantz Fanon from the left and Leo Strauss from
the right. In provocative readings of Lenny Bruce's stand-up
comedy, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, and Norman Lear's All in
the Family, Israel argues that postwar Jewish American popular
culture offers potent and fruitful examples of playing with fraught
emotions. Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion is a
powerful vision of what it means to live with others without
forgiving or forgetting.
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