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Religious Freedom and Populism: The Appropriation of a Human Right and How to Counter it

Bernd Hirschberger, Katja Voges (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2024), 263 pp.

Afghanistan 2001-2021: Gewaltideologien und ein Hauch von offener Gesellschaft

Abbas Poya (ed.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2024), 209 pp.

"Welchen Einfluss haben Gesinnungen der Gewalt auf die gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen in Afghanistan? Die internationalen Beiträger*innen richten ihren Blick auf linke, dschihadistische sowie talibanistische Ideologien und Praktiken in der jüngeren afghanischen Geschichte. Multiperspektivisch ze ... more

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Provocative images in contemporary Islam

David Kloos, Leonie Schmidt, Mark R. Westmoreland, Bart Barendregt (eds.)

Leiden: Leiden University Press (2023), 233 pp.

"Moving beyond a common visual concern within Religious Studies with art, aesthetic value, and perceptions of beauty or coherence, this volume shows how, when, and why images dare, shock, terrorize, confront, challenge, mock, shame, taunt, or offend, either intentionally or unintentionally, and as s ... more

Islamismus: Eine Einführung

Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2023), 151 pp.

"Die Islamwissenschaftlerin Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf liefert in ihrer fundierten und allgemeinverständlichen Einführung Hintergrundwissen für alle, die sich einen Überblick über historische und aktuelle Entwicklungen im Themenfeld Islamismus verschaffen möchten oder beruflich und ehrenamtlich mi ... more

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Digital Authoritarianism and its Religious Legitimization: The cases of Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and India

Ihsan Yilmaz (ed.)

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 174 pp.

"This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies. In doing so, it explains how digital authoritarianism operates at various technological levels includ ... more

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Medien und Islamismus: Der Einfluss von Medienberichterstattung und Propaganda auf islamistische Radikalisierungsprozesse

Katharina Neumann

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), xi, 307 pp.

"Katharina Neumann beschäftigt sich aus einer kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Perspektive mit dem Phänomen der Radikalisierung. Sie untersucht mithilfe einer qualitativen Befragung von radikalisierten Islamisten und Szeneaussteigern, inwiefern journalistische Medienberichterstattung und Propagand ... more

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A Massacre Foretold: National Excommunication and Al-Gama’a

Walter Armbrust

Middle East Critique, volume 28, issue 2 (2019), pp. 197-217

"Al-Gama’a [The Society], a 28-part television biopic of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, was broadcast in the fall of 2010, just before the January 25, 2011 Revolution. The writer of the series, Wahid Hamid, was an important screenwriter for both television and the cinema and a figure k ... more

Handbuch Islam und Muslime
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Berlin: Mediendienst Integration (2019), 229 pp.

"Dieses Buch will ein Nachschlagewerk zu den verschiedenen Facetten muslimischen Lebens in Deutschland sein. Es bietet Journalisten – aber auch allen anderen Interessierten – Grundlagen und Hintergrundinformationen und schöpft dabei aus dem reichhaltigen Fundus an wissenschaftlichen Studien, di ... more

Loving Hate: Anti-Muslim Extremism, Radical Islamism and the Spiral of Polarization

Maik Fielitz, Julia Ebner, Jakob Guhl, Matthias Quent

Jena (DE); London; Berlin: Institute for Democracy and Civil Society (IDZ); Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2018), 75 pp.

"This report focuses on the interactional dynamics between anti-Muslim extremists and radical Islamists in Germany and beyond. It reveals ideological underpinnings, approaches to mobilization and communication patterns, which all prove to be analogous on both sides, and it places emphasis on the rec ... iprocity of hate that may serve to intensify processes of individual and group radicalization. Our study presents the first systematic analysis of the interplay between both forms of extremism that plays out on different places on the Internet. It provides direct evidence showing that Islamist and far-right movements converge at different levels and mutually amplify one another. The analysis focuses on measuring the online interaction between extremist content, individuals and events. Overall, over 10,000 Islamist and far-right Facebook posts and over one million German anti-Muslim tweets between 1 January 2013 and 30 November 2017 were analyzed for this study. Additionally, we conducted three months of ethnographic research into encrypted pro-IS and pro-Al-Qaeda groups on Telegram as well as into far-right chat groups. Key Findings Radical Islamism and anti-Muslim racism, which manifest themselves in the form of far-right extremism and right-wing populism exhibit a symbiotic relationship. In the context of glocal interaction patterns, the far right operates as a national sphere of resonance for international jihadism. Both negate and dismantle basic democratic values such as the inviolability of human dignity and religious freedom. What’s more, racism against Muslims paves the way for radicalization through Islamic fundamentalists. We identified three key patterns that reveal common worldviews and argumentative resemblance: First, the demonization of enemies based on a clear distinction between friend and foe. Second, the victimization of one’s own group as both sides take advantage of the alleged discrimination of their own group and the constructed dominance of the other. Third, conspiracy, which is the basic explanation provided for why the respective milieus do not share their exclusionary claim to truth. The alleged systematic blindness caused by the Jews or fake news are needed to balance the dissonance between claims and reality as well as to contribute to demonizing other groups." (Executive summary) more

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Handbook of conspiracy theory and contemporary religion

Asbjørn Dyrendal, David G. Robertson, Egil Asprem (eds.)

Leiden; Boston: Brill (2018), xiii, 556 pp.

"Conspiracy theories are a ubiquitous feature of our times. The Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion is the first reference work to offer a comprehensive, transnational overview of this phenomenon along with in-depth discussions of how conspiracy theories relate to religion(s). ... more

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Wie Staaten schwach werden: Fragilität von Staaten als internationale Herausforderung

Kai Hirschmann

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2016), 264 pp.

"Der Zerfall von Staaten ist eine wesentliche Bedrohung für die Bürger der betroffenen Länder und für die internationale Sicherheit. Wenn ein Staat seine essenziellen Aufgaben nicht mehr erfüllen kann, versuchen andere Akteure diese Lücken zu schließen. Aber wie kommt es dazu, dass Nationalst ... more

Pulverfass Kaukasus: Nationale Konflikte und islamistische Gefahren am Rande Europas

Manfred Quiring

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2016), 219 pp.

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Islamismus: Geschichte, Vordenker, Organisationen

Tilman Seidensticker

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), 127 pp.

The Use of the Internet by Islamic Social Movements in Collective Action: The Case of 'Justice and Charity'

Mohamed Ben Moussa

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 2 (2011), pp. 63-91

"The article addresses the use of the internet by Islamic social movement organizations (SMOs), focusing on the case of Justice and Charity (JC), the biggest opposition political group in Morocco. It examines the extent to which the SMO exploits the potential of the medium in collective action, and ... more

The Clash of Narratives: Swat Military Operation Against the Taliban

Ayesha Salman (ed.)

Islamabad: Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) (2011), 29 pp.

"The anti-Taliban discourse during the Swat military operation, as mediated by the Pakistani state in its propaganda campaign, was aimed at maligning the Taliban militants in order to build support and legitimacy for the military offensive. The dominant trends in the analysis of state’s propaganda ... more

Die Globalisierung religiöser Gewalt: Von christlichen Milizen bis al-Qaida

Mark Juergensmeyer

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2009), 485 pp.

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Dschihadismus: Materialien

Rüdiger Lohlker

Wien: Facultas wuv (2009), 248 pp.

"Eine Auswahl bestimmter dschihadistischer Dokumente, hier erstmals ins Deutsche übersetzt und wissenschaftlich kommentiert, geben einen Einblick in den Diskurs der dschihadistischen Bewegungen. Es werden Diskussionen aus Onlineforen wiedergegeben, Gedichte bzw. anaschid (agitatorische Lieder), die ... more

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