The Fundamentalist Mindset

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

The Fundamentalist Mindset captures well a timely discussion that beckons the reader to further research and reflection.