Overview
- Analyzes the place of Islam in the world and within Western nation-states
- Explores the causes of radicalization from theological perspective with an objective to offer critical epistemological responses and sociological understandings
- Includes contributions containing original and critical research, addressing the broad themes of religious interpretation, violent extremism and Muslim youth radicalization
Part of the book series: Middle East Today (MIET)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Contesting the Theological Foundations of Violent Extremism
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The Social and Political Perspectives to Violent Extremism
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Religious Leadership and Violent Extremism
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Fethi Mansouri is Director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University and UNESCO Chairholder at Cultural Diversity and Social Justice, Australia.
Zuleyha Keskin is Course Director at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and Managing Editor of Australian Journal of Islamic Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contesting the Theological Foundations of Islamism and Violent Extremism
Editors: Fethi Mansouri, Zuleyha Keskin
Series Title: Middle East Today
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02719-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02718-6Published: 14 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02719-3Published: 29 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2945-7017
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7025
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 232
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Middle Eastern Politics, Politics and Religion, Regionalism, Terrorism and Political Violence, Regional Development