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Religious political violence is by no means a new phenomenon, yet
there are critical differences between the various historical
instances of such violence and its more current permutations. Since
the mid-1970s, religious fundamentalist movements have been seeking
to influence world order by participating in local political
systems. For example, Islamic fundamentalism is at the heart of the
Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Christian fundamental right wing
has seen a resurgence in Europe, and Jewish fundamentalism is
behind the actions of Meir Kahane's Kach movement and the settler
movement. The shift in recent years from secular to religious
political violence necessitates a reevaluation of contemporary
political violence and of the concept of religious violence. This
text analyzes the evolution of religious political violence, in
both historical and contemporary perspectives. Since religious
political violence events are usually associated with the term
"terrorism," the book first analyzes the origins of this
controversial term and its religious manifestations. It then
outlines and highlights the differences between secular and
religious political violence, on ideological, strategic, and
tactical levels, before comparing the concept of Holy War in
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Lastly, it shows how modern
radical monotheistic religious groups interpret and manipulate
their religious sources and ideas to advocate their political
agendas, including the practice of violence. A unique comparative
study of religious political violence across Judaism, Islam, and
Christianity, this text features many international case studies
from the Crusades to the Arab Spring.
Religious political violence is by no means a new phenomenon, yet
there are critical differences between the various historical
instances of such violence and its more current permutations. Since
the mid-1970s, religious fundamentalist movements have been seeking
to influence world order by participating in local political
systems. For example, Islamic fundamentalism is at the heart of the
Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Christian fundamental right wing
has seen a resurgence in Europe, and Jewish fundamentalism is
behind the actions of Meir Kahane's Kach movement and the settler
movement. The shift in recent years from secular to religious
political violence necessitates a reevaluation of contemporary
political violence and of the concept of religious violence. This
text analyzes the evolution of religious political violence, in
both historical and contemporary perspectives. Since religious
political violence events are usually associated with the term
"terrorism," the book first analyzes the origins of this
controversial term and its religious manifestations. It then
outlines and highlights the differences between secular and
religious political violence, on ideological, strategic, and
tactical levels, before comparing the concept of Holy War in
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Lastly, it shows how modern
radical monotheistic religious groups interpret and manipulate
their religious sources and ideas to advocate their political
agendas, including the practice of violence. A unique comparative
study of religious political violence across Judaism, Islam, and
Christianity, this text features many international case studies
from the Crusades to the Arab Spring.
Expository Discourse describes the social science research genre in
an entirely original light. The authors present a comprehensive
model which characterizes the generic, registerial and discoursal
options as they interweave within a text, formulating explicit
realization statements that relate the abstract categories of move
and act (as described by Swales) to the way these units actually
are created by lexical and grammatical choices. The realization
networks draw on the work of systemic functional linguists,
primarily Halliday, Hasan, Martin, and Ventola.
This book is designed to enable clinicians and clinicians in
training to become sensitive to a wide range of language phenomena
that are important for the diagnosis, treatment and research of
psychiatric disorders. The introductory chapters assume no prior
knowledge of linguistics and outline an approach to language that
focuses on meaning and communication ranging from cultural issues
to syntax and intonation. The volume deals in turn with the major
categories of syndromes in psychiatry which have language as an
important characterizing feature. Linguistic concepts are keyed to
diagnostic criteria to make the material accessible to the
practitioner. For each disorder, the diagnostic criteria that are
related to language are outlined in specific linguistic terms. Thus
the familiar diagnostic criteria are enriched with linguistic
description that ranges from aspects of culture that constrain what
can make sense in the society to aspects of intonation and wording.
The volume is supplemented with appendices that link the diagnostic
criteria to the language features that are heard. Over 50 tables
and diagrams provide summary information linking psychiatric
categories, language features and language examples.
This volume provides a detailed an explicit account of the genre of
social science research articles. While previous literature has
analysed some aspects of the research genre separately, this book
presents a comprehensive model which characterizes the generic,
registerial and discoursal options as they interweave within a
text. Another important contribution of the analysis is the
formulation of explicit realization statements that relate the
abstract categories of move and act (as described by Swales) to the
way these units are actually created by lexical and grammatical
choices. The realization networks draw on the work of systemic
functional linguistics, primarily Halliday, Hasan, Martin and
Ventola. The added emphasis in this study is that research texts
are ultimately persuasive texts, and genre 'constraints' can be
tightened or loosened in response to the rhetorical dimension. The
description of the social science research genre is important both
for those teaching English to speakers and readers of other
languages and for researchers in discourse structure. For teachers,
the detailed analysis of texts and the method for determining
realization rules will help in guiding students who must understand
and produce research articles. For researchers, the qualitative and
quantitative analyses show how the different levels of abstraction,
from the genre itself to its moves, acts and wordings, are related
to each other. Lastly, this analysis can serve as a model for
future descriptions of other academic and professional genres.
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