Religious Fundamentalism in the Middle East

A Cross-National, Inter-Faith, and Inter-Ethnic Analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID19903385
AuthorsMansoor Moaddel (0000-0002-7860-6139), Stuart A Karabenick (0000-0002-7948-4049)
Year2013
Pages336
Publication date2013-07-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueReligious Fundamentalism in the Middle East Vol. 3 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004245068
OpenAlexW625353692
Open LibraryOL29685043M
ISBN9789004245068
LanguageEN
Citations received8

In Religious Fundamentalism in the Middle East, Moaddel and Karabenick analyze fundamentalist beliefs and attitudes across nations (Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia), faith (Christianity and Islam), and ethnicity (Azari-Turks, Kurds, and Persians among Iranians), using comparative survey data. For them, fundamentalism is not just a set of religious beliefs. It is rather a set of beliefs about and attitudes toward whatever religious beliefs one has. In this analysis, the authors show that fundamentalist beliefs and attitudes vary across national contexts and individual characteristics, and predict people's orientation toward the same set of historical issues that were the concerns of fundamentalist intellectual leaders and activists. The authors' analysis reveals a "cycle of spirituality" that reinforces the critical importance of taking historical and cultural contexts into consideration to understand the role of religious fundamentalism in contemporary Middle Eastern societies

Christianity · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Faith · Fundamentalism · Islam · Islamic fundamentalism · Middle East · Political science · Sociology · Spirituality · Theology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence · Christentum · Fundamentalismus · Religion · Religious fundamentalism

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