The Fundamentalist Mindset

Psychological Perspectives on Religion, Violence, and History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Av Charles B. Strozier, David M. Terman, James W. Jones, Katherine A. Boyd, John Jay College) Strozier, Charles B. (Professor of history and criminal justice, Professor of history and criminal justice, City University of New York, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis) Terman, David M. (Director, Director, Rutgers University) Jones, James W. (Professor of Religion, adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology, Professor of Religion, adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice) Boyd, Katherine A. (Doctoral student, Doctoral student, Charles B Strozier, David M Terman, James W Jones

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This penetrating book sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. What accounts for the violence that emerges among some fundamentalist groups? The contributors to this book identify several factors: a radical dualism, in which all aspects of life are bluntly categorized as either good or evil; a destructive inclination to interpret authoritative texts, laws, and teachings in the most literal of terms; an extreme and totalized conversion experience; paranoid thinking; and an apocalyptic world view. After examining each of these concepts in detail, and showing the ways in which they lead to violence among widely disparate groups, these engrossing essays explore such areas as fundamentalism in the American experience and among jihadists, and they illuminate aspects of the same psychology that contributed to such historical crises as the French Revolution, the Nazi movement, and post-Partition Hindu religious practice.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-05-27
Mått236 x 155 x 25 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780195379655

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Charles B. Strozier is Professor of History and Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, John Jay College, and a practicing psychoanalyst. David M. Terman is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and Director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. James W. Jones is Professor of Religion and adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University. Katharine A. Boyd is a doctoral student at John Jay College, City University of New York.

Acknowledgements iPreface iiiMartin E. MartyIntroduction 1Charles B. Strozier and David M. TermanPart I: What is the Fundamentalist Mindset? 91 Definitions and Dualisms 10Charles B. Strozier and Katharine Boyd2 Theories of Group Psychology, Paranoia, and Rage 18David M. Terman3 The Apocalyptic 41Charles B. Strozier and Katharine Boyd4 The Charismatic Leader and the Totalism of Conversion 60Charles B. Strozier, Katharine Boyd, and James W. JonesPart II: Motivations for Violence 715 The Paranoid Gestalt 72David M. Terman6 The Apocalyptic Other 97Charles B. Strozier7 Triggering the Fundamentalist Mind: Having Control Under Control 111Bettina Muenster and David Lotto 8 Fundamentalist Faith States: Affect Regulation and the Attachment Relationship to God 126Daniel HillPart III: Christian and American Contexts 1399 Eternal Warfare: Violence on the Mind of American Apocalyptic Christianity 140James W. Jones10 Opening the Seven Seals of Fundamentalism 164Charles B. Strozier11 The Unsettling of the Fundamentalist Mindset: Shifts in Apocalyptic Belief in Contemporary Conservative Christianity 188Lee QuinbyPart IV: Global and Historical Contexts 21212 Motivations for Jihadi Violence 213Farhad Khosrokhavar13 Ordering Chaos: the Nazi Millennialism and the Quest for Meaning 238David Redles14 The French Revolution and the Paranoid Gestalt 273David P. Jordan15 Hindu Victimhood and India's Muslim Minority 304John R. McLaneConclusion: A Fundamentalist Mindset? 336James W. Jones