Entering the Mindset of Violent Religious Activists

How can one enter the mindset of religious activists whose worldview and values are different from one's own? This is the challenge for analyzing contemporary violent religious movements and individuals around the world. This essay suggests guidelines, based on the author's interview exper...

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1. VerfasserIn: Juergensmeyer, Mark 1940- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: MDPI [2015]
In: Religions
Jahr: 2015, Band: 6, Heft: 3, Seiten: 852-859
weitere Schlagwörter:B Methodology
B Terrorism
B Religious Violence
B social analysis
B Interviews
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Zusammenfassung:How can one enter the mindset of religious activists whose worldview and values are different from one's own? This is the challenge for analyzing contemporary violent religious movements and individuals around the world. This essay suggests guidelines, based on the author's interview experience, for entering religious minds through informative encounters, relational knowledge, bracketing assumptions, and constructing a view of the whole.
ISSN:2077-1444
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel6030852