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Religion and Extremism

Rejecting Diversity

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvDouglas Pratt

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-12-14
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury 3PL
Antal sidor208
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781474292245

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Douglas Pratt is Professor of Studies in Religion at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and Adjunct Professor of Theology and Interreligious Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is an Associate of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and the New Zealand Associate, UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations Asia – Pacific.

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Accommodating Diversity: paradigms and patterns 3. Diversity Resisted: exclusion and fundamentalism 4. Texts of Terror: scriptural motifs for extremism 5. The Jewish experience of extremism 6. Forms of Christian extremism 7. Trajectories of Islamic extremism 8. Mutual extremism: reactive co-radicalization 9. Extremism and Islamophobia 10. Conclusion Bibliography Index

Douglas Pratt's book Religion and Extremism cannot come at a more opportune time. Through a painstaking historical analysis Pratt demonstrates beyond doubt that all religions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have had a violent past and path, whether one thinks that violence is inherent in religion, or religion has a violent core, or religion, though peaceful, can be instrumentalized as a violent means to achieve secular goals. Pratt forces adherents of all religions humbly to acknowledge this sad fact; like an addict who cannot be healed unless he or she recognizes his or her addiction, so believers cannot work for peace unless they first confess their addiction to violence. This is Pratt's uplifting message that we all need to hear.