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Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World

Gabriel Abraham Almond; R. Scott Appleby; Emmanuel Sivan

Why do fundamentalist movements turn violent? Are fundamentalisms a global threat to human rights, security, and democratic forms of government? What is the future of fundamentalism? To answer questions like these, STRONG RELIGION draws on the results of the Fundamentalism Project, a decade-long interdisciplinary study of antimodernist, antisecular militant religious movements on five continents and within seven world religious traditions. The authors of this study analyze the various social structures, cultural contexts, and political environments in which fundamentalist movements have emerged around the world, from the Islamic Hamas and Hizbullah to the Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries of Northern Ireland and from the Moral Majority and Christian Coalition of the United States to the Sikh radicals and Hindu nationalists of India. Offering a vividly detailed portrait of the cultures that nourish such movements, STRONG RELIGION describes different modes of fundamentalism and identifies the kinds of historical events that can trigger them.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2003

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Plutocracy and Politics in New York City

Gabriel Abraham Almond

This study of plutocracy and politics in New York City in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries poses the following central questions: What have been the consequences of the relatively rapid democratization in America for activities and attitudes of the wealthy classes and what transformations have occurred in the political and social attitudes of the wealthier classes as a result of the increasing lower-class pressures? Gabriel Almond conducted the research for his University of Chicago dissertation in 1935-1936 in New York City. The Great Depression supplied the background events and themes.

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Discipline Divided Schools and Sects in Political Science

Gabriel Abraham Almond

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The Civic Culture Revisited: An Analytic Study

Gabriel Abraham Almond; Sidney Verba

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The American People and Foreign Policy

Gabriel Abraham Almond

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