Fanaticism And Conflict In The Modern Age

Author : Matthew Hughes,Gaynor Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135753641

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Fanaticism and Conflict in the Modern Age by Matthew Hughes,Gaynor Johnson Pdf

What is fanaticism? Is the term at all useful? After all, one person's fanatic is another's freedom fighter. This new book probves these key questions of the twenty first century. It details how throughout history there have been fanatics eager to pursue their religious, political or personal agendas. Fanaticism has fuelled many of the conflicts of the twentieth century, in particular the theatres of combat of the Second World War. More recently, religious fanaticism has bedevilled affairs in the Middle East and elsewhere. Is fanaticism becoming more fanatical in the new millennium? As the events of 11 September 2001 prove, fanaticism, however it is defined, continues to dominate international affairs. The volume covers the nature and philosophy of fanaticism, the connection between political ideology and fanaticism, and the relationship between fanaticism and war in the contemporary era. To illustrate these themes, the volume presents a broad range of case studies including the Dervishes in the Sudan in the 1890s, fanaticism in the context of the Pacific war, 1937-45, the 12th SS Hitler Jugend Division in action in Normandy in 1944, the German army on the Eastern Front, and terrorism and guerrilla war after 1945.

Author : Adrian Dragoș Defta
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527571358

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The 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" by Adrian Dragoș Defta Pdf

This book demythologises one of the top Waffen-SS units during the Second World War, the Hitlerjugend Division. In addition to bringing together new research in European historiography, it also represents an innovative scientific approach using social psychology. It provides insights into inner psychological mechanisms that facilitated moral disengagement and culminated in the division’s unparalleled combat motivation and war crimes. Best known for their alleged fanaticism, Nazi indoctrination and inclination to perpetrate atrocities, Hitlerjugend soldiers are analysed here using perspectives drawn from across sociology, anthropology and psychology.

Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317451525

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World Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Political Violence from Ancient Times to the Post-9/11 Era by James Ciment Pdf

This is a 3-volume book. First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Author : Alasdair Raffe
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843837299

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The Culture of Controversy by Alasdair Raffe Pdf

Illuminating the development and character of Scottish Protestantism, The Culture of Controversy proposes new ways of understanding religion and politics in early modern Scotland. The Culture of Controversy investigates arguments about religion in Scotland from the Restoration to the death of Queen Anne and outlines a new model for thinking about collective disagreement in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century societies. Rejecting teleological concepts of the 'public sphere', the book instead analyses religious debates in terms of a distinctively early modern 'culture of controversy'. This culture was less rational and less urbanised than the public sphere. Traditional means of communication such as preaching and manuscript circulation were more important than newspapers and coffeehouses. As well as verbal forms of discourse, controversial culture was characterised by actions, rituals and gestures. People from all social ranks and all regions of Scotland were involved in religious arguments, but popular participation remained of questionable legitimacy. Through its detailedand innovative examination of the arguments raging between and within Scotland's main religious groups, the presbyterians and episcopalians, over such issues as Church government, state oaths and nonconformity, The Culture ofControversy reveals hitherto unexamined debates about religious enthusiasm, worship and clerical hypocrisy. It also illustrates the changing nature of the fault line between the presbyterians and episcopalians and contextualises the emerging issues of religious toleration and articulate irreligion. Illuminating the development and character of Scottish Protestantism, The Culture of Controversy proposes new ways of understanding religion and politics in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Scotland and will be particularly valuable to all those with an interest in early modern British history. Alasdair Raffe is Lecturer in History at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Author : Alan Wolfe
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307271853

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Political Evil by Alan Wolfe Pdf

A leading political scientist identifies "political evil" as wrongdoing perpetrated by individuals with specific political goals, cites specific examples throughout the world and explains that important changes can be initiated through adjustments in how political evil is treated.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : PURD:32754085107674

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Professional Journal of the United States Army by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UOM:39015088892503

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Military Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claudia Franziska Brühwiler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441142283

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Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth by Claudia Franziska Brühwiler Pdf

Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth exemplifies how literature and, specifically, the work of Philip Roth can help readers understand the ways in which individuals develop their political identity, learn to comprehend political ideas, and define their role in society. Combining political science, literary theory, and anthropology, the book describes an individual's political coming of age as a political initiation story, which is crafted as much by the individual himself as by the circumstances influencing him, such as political events or the political attitude of the parents. Philip Roth's characters constantly re-write their own stories and experiment with their identities. Accordingly, Philip Roth's works enable the reader to explore, for instance, how individuals construct their identity against the backdrop of political transformations or contested territories, and thereby become initiands-or fail to do so. Contrary to what one might expect, initiations are not only defining moments in childhood and early adulthood; instead, Roth shows how initiation processes recur throughout an individual's life.

Author : Rashmi Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135695996

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Hamas and Suicide Terrorism by Rashmi Singh Pdf

This book analyses the root causes of suicide terrorism at both the elite and rank-and- file levels of the Hamas and also explains why this tactic has disappeared in the post-2006 period. This volume adopts a multi-causal, multi-level approach to analyse the use of suicide bombings by Hamas and its individual operatives in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It uses extensive fieldwork and on-the-ground interviews in order to delve beneath the surface and understand why and how suicide operations were adopted as a sustained mechanism of engagement within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Three core factors fuelled Hamas’s suicide bombing campaigns. First, Palestinian suicide operations are a complex combination of instrumental and expressive violence adopted by both organisations and individuals to achieve political and/or societal survival, retaliation and competition. In other words, suicide bombings not only serve distinct political and strategic goals for both Hamas and its operatives but they also serve to convey a symbolic message to various audiences, within Israel, the Palestinian territories and around the world. Second, suicide operations perform a crucial role in the formation and consolidation of Palestinian national identity and are also the latest manifestation of the historically entrenched cultural norm of militant heroic martyrdom. Finally, Hamas’s use of political Islam also facilitates the articulation, justification and legitimisation of suicide operations as a modern-day jihad against Israel through the means of modern interpretations and fatwas. This approach not only facilitates a much needed, multifaceted, holistic understanding of suicide bombings in this particular region but also yields policy-relevant lessons to address extreme political violence in other parts of the world. This book will be of much interest to students of Hamas, terrorism, Middle East politics and security studies.

Author : Gavin Walker
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786637246

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The Red Years by Gavin Walker Pdf

Japan: The "other," lesser-known 1968 The analysis of May 68 in Paris, Berkeley, and the Western world has been widely reconsidered. But 1968 is not only a year that conjures up images of Paris, Frankfurt, or Milan: it is also the pivotal year for a new anti-colonial and anti-capitalist politicsto erupt across the Third World, a crucial and central moment in the history, thought, and politics of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Japan's position -- neither in "the West" nor in the "Third World" --provoked a complex and intense round of mass mobilizations through the 1960s and early 70s. Although the "'68 revolutions" of the Global North -- Western Europe and North America -- are widely known, the Japanese situation remains remarkably under-examined globally. Beginning in the late 1950s, a New Left, independent of the prewar Japanese communist moment (itself of major historical importance in the 1920s and 30s), came to produce one of the most vibrant decades of political organization, political thought, and political aesthetics in the global twentieth century. In the present volume, major thinkers of the Left in Japan alongside scholars of the 1968 movements reexamine the theoretical sources, historical background, cultural productions, and major organizational problems of the 1968 revolutions in Japan.

Author : Joanna R. Adler,Jacqueline M Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136842313

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Forensic Psychology by Joanna R. Adler,Jacqueline M Gray Pdf

This book brings together academics, practitioners and experts in the field of forensic psychology to demonstrate the scope of the discipline and push its parameters. Its aim is to go beyond introductory texts to challenge perceptions, to raise questions for research and to pose problems for practice. The editors hope to inspire and stimulate debate about how forensic psychology can aid the practice of justice. The book is divided into six sections, addressing key topics from the discipline: investigation and prosecution; testimony and evidence; serious and persistent offending; treatment as intervention; intervention and prevention and punishment and corrections. The contributors are drawn from the UK, the USA and Australia. This updated, revised and significantly expanded edition develops the picture of diversity and depth of forensic psychology; considers ways in which the discipline has progressed and identifies challenges for its future sustainability and growth. includes a new section on treatment as intervention with contributions on personality disordered offenders; anger control group work with forensic psychiatric inpatients; and developments in treatment for drug misuse offenders additional chapters throughout including contributions on UK police interviews; the investigation and prosecutoin of rape; the effect of gender in the courtroom; forensic psychology and terrorism; the aetiology of genocide; self harm in prisons; post-corrections reintegration and many more an innovative textbook on forensic psychology exploring application of the subject and setting forensic psychology in a broader context demonstrates ways in which forensic psychology can aid the practice of criminal justice This book will be essential reading for students of forensic psychology and practitioners working in the field.

Author : Alexander Astroth
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476674568

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Mass Suicides on Saipan and Tinian, 1944 by Alexander Astroth Pdf

When the Americans invaded the Japanese-controlled islands of Saipan and Tinian in 1944, civilians and combatants committed mass suicide to avoid being captured. Though these mass suicides have been mentioned in documentary films, they have received scant scholarly attention. This book draws on United States National Archives documents and photographs, as well as veteran and survivor testimonies, to provide readers with a better understanding of what happened on the two islands and why. The author details the experiences of the people of the islands from prehistoric times to the present, with an emphasis on the Japanese, Okinawan, Korean, Chamorro and Carolinian civilians during invasion and occupation.

Author : Perry R. Hinton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000893236

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The Japanese in the Western Mind by Perry R. Hinton Pdf

This fascinating book is an insightful exploration of Western perceptions and representations of Japanese culture and society, drawing on social and cultural psychological ideas around stereotypes and intercultural relations. Hinton considers how the West views the Japanese as an ideologically different “other”, and proposes a cultural theory of stereotypes from which to explore Western observations of the Japanese. The book explores Western socio-cultural representations of the Japanese alongside Edward Said’s well-known theory of Orientalism. It examines the West’s intercultural relationship with Japan, and how this has changed over time, to show how the Japanese have been represented in the Western mind throughout history, to the present day. Hinton argues that our view of other cultures is based on our own cultural expectations, which involve complex issues of meaning-making and perceived cultural differences. This book foregrounds the research through accounts of Westerners about the Japanese, to reveal how cultural representations can influence the ways in which people from different cultures communicate in interaction, and how intercultural understanding or misunderstanding can arise. By reflecting on the changing Western representations of the Japanese, and how and why these have emerged, this book will be of interest to students, academics and general readers interested in stereotypes, cultural psychology, intercultural communication, anthropology and Japanese culture and history.

Author : Ahmad F. Yousif ,M. Ashraf Adeel,Taraneh Wilkinson,Joseph Alagha,Zakiyuddin Baidhawy,Etga Ugur,Philipp Bruckmayr ,Sadek Hamid,Showkat Ahmad Dar ,Bahar Davary,Anna Piela,Katherine Bullock ,Amr G.E. Sabet ,Mojtaba Ebrahimian,Muhammad Yassen Gada,Ahmad el-Muhammady,Muhammad Haron,Saulat Pervez
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 32:3 by Ahmad F. Yousif ,M. Ashraf Adeel,Taraneh Wilkinson,Joseph Alagha,Zakiyuddin Baidhawy,Etga Ugur,Philipp Bruckmayr ,Sadek Hamid,Showkat Ahmad Dar ,Bahar Davary,Anna Piela,Katherine Bullock ,Amr G.E. Sabet ,Mojtaba Ebrahimian,Muhammad Yassen Gada,Ahmad el-Muhammady,Muhammad Haron,Saulat Pervez Pdf

The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.

Author : M. Litvak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230621633

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Palestinian Collective Memory and National Identity by M. Litvak Pdf

This book analyzes the evolution and cultivation of modern Palestinian collective memory and its role in shaping Palestinian national identity from its inception in the 1920s to the 2006 Palestinian elections.