Rethinking Religion and Radicalization

Dr Michele Grossman, AM is Professor and Research Chair in Diversity and Community Resilience at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, where she leads the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies.Dr H.A. Hellyer FRHistS is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London, and also a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC.

• List of contributorsAcknowledgementsSection 1: Religion and violent radicalization: Concepts and contestationsIntroduction: Remapping the terrain of religion, radicalization and extremist violence Michele Grossman and H. A. HellyerReligion, radicalization and violence: Conceptual and interpretive issues Lorne Dawson The racialized logic of The UK’s countering extremism strategy Tahir AbbasSection 2: Violent radicalization and the governance of religious diversity The governance of religious diversity and the challenge of (violent) radicalization in Western Europe Thomas Sealy and Tina Magazzini Religiously attributed radicalization and violent extremism: Policy responses and impacts on the governance of religion in South-Eastern Europe Liliya Yakova and Rositsa DzhekovaThe determinants of radicalization in Russia: Is religion to blame? Marat Iliyasov The evolution of Salafi jihadi terrorism and state responses in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines Greg BartonSection 3: Religion and violence across extremist movements and contextsA majority with a minority complex: Examining anti-Muslim violence in Sri Lanka and India Amar Amarasingam and Shweta DesaiThe convergence of land- and blood-centric political theologies in Israel Atalia OmerHindu radicalization in contemporary India Pralay KanungoSection 4: Political mobilizations of religion on the extremist rightMarriage of convenience? The nexus of religious extremism and far-right militancy in Israel and the United States Alejandro J. Beutel and Arie Perliger‘Orthodoxy or Death’: The embrace of Orthodox Christianity by the modern far right Lydia KhalilPreparing for Day X: Looking into Germany’s extreme right-wing radicalization Frederic Heine and Tina MagazziniMapping conspiritual radicalization: The intersection of conspiracy movements, spirituality and radicalization Vivian GerrandIndex

Grossman and Hellyer have edited a thought-provoking anthology … A must for all academic libraries. Highly recommended.