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The fundamentalist mindset : psychological perspectives on religion, violence, and history / edited by Charles B. Strozier, David M. Terman, and James W. Jones ; with Katharine A. Boyd ; foreword by Martin E. Marty.

Van Pelt Library BL238 .F8496 2010
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Strozier, Charles B.
Terman, David M.
Jones, James William, 1943-
Boyd, Katharine.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Religious fundamentalism--Psychology.
Religious fundamentalism.
Fundamentalism--Psychology.
Fundamentalism.
Psychology, Religious.
Violence--Religious aspects.
Violence.
Psychology.
Physical Description:
xxi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Contents:
Foreword / Martin E. Marty
Introduction / Charles B. Strozier and David M. Terman
Part I: What is the fundamentalist mindset?
Definitions and dualisms / Charles B. Strozier and Katharine Boyd
Theories of group psychology, paranoia, and rage / David M. Terman
The apocalyptic / Charles B. Strozier and Katharine Boyd
The charismatic leader and the totalism of conversion / Charles B. Strozier, Katharine Boyd, and James W. Jones
Part II: Motivations for violence
Fundamentalism and the paranoid gestalt / David M. Terman
The apocalyptic other / Charles B. Strozier
The social psychology of humiliation and revenge : the origins of the fundamentalist mindset / Bettina Muenster and David Lotto
Fundamentalist faith states : regulation theory as a framework for the psychology of religious fundamentalism / Daniel Hill
Part III: Christian and American contexts
Eternal warfare : violence on the mind of American apocalyptic Christianity / James W. Jones
Opening the seven seals of fundamentalism / Charles B. Strozier
The unsettling of the fundamentalist mindset : shifts in apocalyptic belief in contemporary conservative Christianity / Lee Quinby
Part IV: Global and historical contexts
The psychology of the global jihadists / Farhad Khosrokhavar
Ordering chaos : Nazi millennialism and the quest for meaning / David Redles
Rumor, fear, and paranoia in the French Revolution / David P. Jordan
Hindu victimhood and India's Muslim minority / John R. McLane
Conclusion: A fundamentalist mindset? / James W. Jones.
ISBN:
9780195379655
0195379659
9780195379662
0195379667
OCLC:
434125422
Publisher Number:
99937294680

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