Introduction to Political Theory

in fundamentalist terms, and therefore we cannot agree with the argument that the term relates essentially to understanding reli ...

forged from formative revelatory experiences long ago (Sidahmed and Ehteshami, 1996: 5). Although fundamentalists hark back to a ...

emancipatory traditions, the belief in freedom, equality and self-government that have characterised modern ideas since the Enli ...

Indeed, some writers even see a kind of postmodernism in fundamentalism. Brown speaks of it as a ‘foundationalism without a gran ...

‘democratic constraint’ influences what these movements actually say (1994: 197). Yet Armstrong cites an American fundamentalist ...

What is Islamic fundamentalism? It is widely held that fundamentalism is a ‘green threat’ in the post-cold war world. The Islami ...

fundamentalism, not because it is Islamic, but because it will react negatively to a failing modernity. Algeria not only offers ...

Yet, in Egypt, as elsewhere, it is possible to be an Islamist without being a fundamentalist. Abul Fotouh who is head of the Egy ...

(Kepel, 1994: 107). A poll in 1969 revealed that there were some 1,300 evangelical Christian radio and television stations, with ...

significant trend to liberalism in the American public, and young Americans are far more liberal than the older cohorts they are ...

Jewish fundamentalism and the Israeli State A tiny minority of orthodox Jews in the 1920s began to see in Zionism – a belief tha ...

Gush Emunin received some support from the Israeli party Likud, but subsequently resorted to a terrorism that was officially den ...

The ‘clash of civilisations’: a fundamentalist thesis? The link between fundamentalism and the state is well exemplified by Hunt ...

argued, the world is becoming more modern and less Western (1996: 78). Of course, people are different, but for Huntington these ...

Summary Fundamentalism is sometimes seen as a mere label. In our view, it is more than this. It is a concept despite the fact th ...

Boston, R. (1996) The Most Dangerous Man in AmericaNew York: Prometheus Books. Brown, W. (1995) States of InjuryPrinceton, NJ: P ...

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Part 4 Contemporary ideas What do we mean by a new idea? In the last part of this book we discuss five concepts: human rights, c ...

maintain some distance from the world of politics, for otherwise they will be unable to distinguish the merely transitory and pa ...

Chapter 18 Human rights Introduction A human right is an entitlement to treatment that a person enjoys simply by virtue of being ...