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Religion and Extremism - Rejecting Diversity (Hardcover)
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Religion and Extremism - Rejecting Diversity (Hardcover)
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Focusing on the three monotheistic religions of Judaism,
Christianity and Islam, Douglas Pratt argues that despite a popular
focus on Islam, extremist Jews and Christians can also enact terror
and destruction. Religion and Extremism stresses that the
ideological rejection of diversity underlies religious extremism
resulting in violent behaviours and, increasingly, in hardening
social and religious attitudes and responses. An analysis of
religiously-driven terrorism reveals the presence of a distinctive
and rigid form of exclusivity found in these religions. In this
regard, the contemporary resurgence in totalising claims of
fundamentalist ideologues is cause for particular concern. Pratt
reasons that however expressed, the motif of the 'Absolute' is
central to all, but how that absolute is and has been received,
interpreted and responded to, is a matter of great diversity. The
author asserts that theological 'Absolutism' displays an underlying
dynamic whereby these three religions may be led into extremism.
Religion and Extremism also explores contemporary issues of
Islamophobia and mutual extremism, identified as 'reactive
co-radicalization', and concludes by reflecting on how extremism
today might be countered.
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