James Aho

Biographic Data

ID112785
NAMEJames Aho
GIVEN NAMESJames
FAMILY NAMEAho
SIGNATUREAHO J
AFFILIATIONSIdaho State University
ORCID0000-0003-3352-3265
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS54
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • Revisiting Authoritarianism

    Open AccessJames AhoARTICLECritical Sociology2020References: 5

    This article traces the roots of the Authoritarian Personality (AP) project in the neo-Freudian/phenomenological tradition of the Frankfurt School (FS). It focuses on three of its major proponents (Erich Fromm, Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse) and examines the construction of the F-scale. It outlines how, according to FS-influenced scholars, the AP arose from the disciplinary measures inflicted on late 19th and early 20th century German middle…

  • Alexander Reid Ross, Against the Fascist Creep (Oakland: (AK Press, 2017)

    Open AccessJames AhoARTICLELeft History An Interdisciplinary…2019

    Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method

  • Far-Right Fantasy: A Sociology of American Religion and Politics

    James AhoBOOKFar-Right Fantasy2015

    Prologue: The Battle of Bunker Ville Introduction Interlude 1: Sovereign Citizens 1. The American Far-Right in Perspective Interlude 2: The Secessionist State of Jefferson 2. Explaining the Far-Right Interlude 3: Dreams of a Right-Wing Homeland 3. White Man: Its Extinction and Redemption Interlude 4: Cut or Shut It 4. The Communicative Preconditions of Far-Right Fantasy Interlude 5: The Rhetoric of No Spin News 5. Far-Right Fantasy.1 The Satanifi…

  • The Religious Problem of Evil

    James AhoCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of religion…2013

    This chapter provides some of the answers as to how evil is experienced and why it exists. Evil explodes into the everyday world unasked and unwelcome, and has little underlying meaning other than in relation to culturally contrived notions of orderliness, goodliness, or legality. Three major reasons or rhetorics are routinely raised by evil-doers when called upon to account for their acts: arguments from affect, from custom, and from rationality…

  • Europe, Strategy and Armed Forces: The Making of a Distinctive Power

    James AhoARTICLEThe European Legacy2013

  • Introduction to Civil War

    James AhoARTICLEThe European Legacy2013

    By Tiqqun (Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e), 2010), 231 pp. $12.95 paper. Tiqqun is a French collective, and this is its manifesto of revolt against the “ONE,” the anonymous They, who want to “reduce”

  • Christian Heroism and the Reconstruction of America

    Open AccessJames AhoARTICLECritical Sociology2013Cited by: 11References: 1

    This is a critical phenomenology of the latest iteration of the Christian Right: Dominionism. A brief history of the movement first situates Dominionism in the American religious landscape. The article then details eight of its political-economic objectives, followed by an account of its heroic action orientation. The article concludes with a critique of Dominionism, coupled with observations on its likely fate

  • Harold Garfinkel: Toward a Sociological Theory of Information. Ed. Anne Warfield Rawls

    Open AccessJames AhoARTICLEHuman Studies2010

  • The Terrorist Identity: Explaining the Terrorist Threat

    Open AccessJames AhoARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2007Cited by: 3

  • The Danse Macabre

    James AhoARTICLESociological Spectrum2006References: 5

    This is a sociology of how antagonists demonize each other, simultaneously turning themselves into executioners and (unwittingly) into victims of their own victims. The process is said to be tragic because each party to it experiences itself as blameless; hence, their victimization always comes as a surprise. I illustrate this paradoxical dance of death by utilizing three recent, related domestic incidents involving federal officials and purporte…

  • The Ernest Becker Reader

    Open AccessJames AhoARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2006

  • The Orifice as Sacrificial Site: Culture, Organization, and the Body

    John H Simpson, James AhoARTICLESociology of Religion2004

    Journal Article The Orifice as Sacrificial Site: Culture, Organization, and the Body by James Aho. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 2002, xii+165pp.; $45.95 (cloth), $22.95 (paper) Get access John H. Simpson John H. Simpson Hitachi Survey Research Centre University of Toronto at Mississauga Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 1, Spring 2004, Pages 87–88, https://doi.org/10.2…

  • The Orifice as Sacrificial Site: Culture, Organization, and the Body

    Rebecca F Plante, James AhoARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2003

    Dirty things, the entryways and exits of our bodies, as well as their exuviae and influents, are mysteriously enchanting. Yet they are also terrifying. As a result, they have been perennial objects of devotion, and everywhere they have become subject to ritualization. In his customarily pointed way, Aho, who has written previous books on the survivalist sects of the Northwest, here explores cross-cultural primary documents to characterize what he…

  • The Orifice as Sacrifical Site: Culture, Organization, and the Body (Sociological Imagination and Structural Change)

    James AhoBOOKThe Orifice as Sacrifical Site2002

  • Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence

    Open AccessJames Aho, James A AhoREVIEWPolitical Science Quarterly2000

  • The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation

    James Aho, Scott ApplebyREVIEWReview of Religious Research2000Cited by: 1

  • White man as a social construct

    James Aho, James A AhoARTICLEThe European Legacy1999References: 1

  • White Power, White Pride: The White Separatist Movement in the United States

    James Aho, Betty A Dobratz et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1999

  • Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence

    James Aho, Valerie Jenne et al.REVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…1998

  • Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States, by Sara Diamond

    Open AccessJames AhoARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1996

  • This Thing of Darkness: A Sociology of the Enemy

    John M Bozeman, James Aho et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research1996

  • This Thing of Darkness: A Sociology of the Enemy

    Kathleen M Blee, Kathleen Blee et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1995Cited by: 10

  • The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism

    Clarence Y H Lo, Michael Bonham-Crecelius et al.REVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…1992

    From their home bases in Idaho and neighboring areas of the Northwest, organizations such as the Order, the Aryan Nations Church, the Posse Comitatus, and the Golden Mean Society have drawn national attention and spread the gospel of a constitutionally pure, Christian homeland. For the reader who knows these groups only from a selection of inflammatory quotes and violent deeds, this compelling work presents the first disciplined exploration of th…

  • God's Warriors: The Christian Right in Twentieth Century America

    James Aho, James A Aho et al.ARTICLESociological Analysis1992

    Journal Article God's Warriors: The Christian Right in Twentieth Century America, by Clyde Wilcox. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, xx + 249 pp. $34 Get access James A. Aho James A. Aho Idaho State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 53, Issue 4, Winter 1992, Pages 456–457, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711442 Published: 01 December 1992

  • The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism

    Anson Shupe, James Aho et al.ARTICLESociological Analysis1992

    Journal Article The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism, by James A. Aho. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990, x + 323 pp. $24.95 Get access Anson Shupe Anson Shupe Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 53, Issue 1, Spring 1992, Pages 116–117, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711640 Published: 01 March 1992