Faith-based Radicalism

Contents: Willfried Spohn: Nationalism and Religion in a Globalising World. A Multiple Modernities Perspective - Ayhan Akman: Framing Faith-based Radicalism in the Context of Civil Society. Beyond an Ontological Approach - Anne Speckhard: Sacred Terror. Insights into the Psychology of Religiously Motivated Terrorism - Mario Ferrero: An Economic Approach to Religious Extremism - Naftali Brawer: Judaism and the Challenge of Sacred Text - Michiel Leezenberg: Islamic Radicalism, the Quran, and the Modern World - Christopher Rowland: Radical Christian Writings - Zbigniew Kubacki: The Question of Salvation and Faith-based Radicalism - Tisha M. Rajendra: «The Tyranny of Caprice.» Absolutism and Relativism in the Thought of Joseph Ratzinger - Heinz Streib: Faith Development and a Way beyond Fundamentalism - Dirk Hutsebaut: Religious Cognitive Styles and Ethnocentrism - Carl Sterkens: Reflection on the Limits of 'Religious' Explanations of Violence. A Social Psychological Perspective - Jerrold M. Post: Countering Islamist Militancy. An Epidemiologic Approach - Orla Lynch: Fundamentalism, Psychology and the European Threat - Markku Ruotsila: Christian Nationalism and American Unilateralism. The Case of the World Christian Fundamentals Association - Clyde Wilcox: Radical Dreams and Political Realities. Religion and Social Movements in the United States - Daniela Kalkandjieva: The Orthodox Church and Religious Nationalism - Katrien Hertog: Peace Building Resources and Obstacles in the Russian Orthodox Church - Sami Zemni: Islamism, Radicalism and Jihad. At Odds with Modernity? - Konrad Pedziwiatr: Public Mobilisation of Islam in Europe. Possible Outcomes of the Activism within Student Islamic Societies.

The Editors: Christiane Timmerman coordinates research on Ethnic Minorities and Migration at the University of Antwerp (OASeS). She teaches Anthropology and is chairwoman of the Antwerp Centre of Migration Studies (CEMIS). She is also Director of Academic Affairs of the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp.
Dirk Hutsebaut is professor emeritus of psychology and Director of the Centre for the Psychology of Religion at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He is an expert in the field of psychology of religion.
Sara Mels holds a master degree in Modern History and in International Relations and Conflict Resolution at the KULeuven and is currently project coordinator at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp.
Walter Nonneman is professor of economics at the University of Antwerp and Managing Director of UCSIA - University Centre Saint Ignatius Antwerp. His current research interest is economics of migration.
Walter Van Herck is part-time lecturer of philosophy of religion at the University of Antwerp and part-time lecturer at the Centre Pieter Gillis.