The multidisciplinary anthology Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic provides deep insights concerning the current impact of Covid-19 on various religious groups and believers around the world. Based on contributions of well-known scholars in the field of Religious Fundamentalism, the contributors offer about a window into the origins of religious fundamentalism and the development of these movements as well as the creation of the category itself. Further recommendations regarding specific (fundamentalist) religious groups and actors and their possible development within Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Judaism round up the discussion about the rise of Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic.
Price: $45.00
Pages: 278
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 April 2021
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837654851
Format: Paperback
»The volume should be useful for both academics and P/CVE practitioners who arengaged with radicalization and religious extremism.«
Nina Käsehage, born in 1978, is an historian and religious scholar. Since 2017, she is a senior lecturer at the Department for Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology (Faculty of Theology) at the University of Rostock. In 2018, she received her Ph.D. for her basic research about the contemporary Salafist and Jihadist milieu in Germany from the Department of Religious Studies (Faculty of Philosophy) at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. Her main research interests are Islamic Radicalization, New Religious Movements, Qualitative Religious Research, Religious Fundamentalism, Psychology and Sociology of Religion.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 7
Cultural Wars and Communal Perseverance: Jewish Fundamentalism in Our Time 25
The Impact of Covid-19 on Orthodox Groups and Believers in Russia 47
Towards a Covid-Jihad - Millennialism in the field of Jihadism 81
How Central Asian Salafi-Jihadi Groups are Exploiting the Covid-19 Pandemic: New Opportunities and Challenges 107
Islamic Fundamentalism Framing Politics in Mali: From the Middle Ages to the Age of Pandemic 149
Global Virus, International Lamas: Tibetan Religious Leaders in the Face of the Covid-19 Crisis 179
Dismantling Prejudices on Muslim Communities in Italy in Times of Pandemic: not just Religious Fundamentalism 221
Religious Fundamentalism - A Misleading Concept? 251
List of figures 263
List of authors 273
