Cambridge University Press Paperback
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EAN: 9780521137119 Published: 29/07/2010 Language: English
Over the last decade, political Islam has been denounced in the Western media and in the surrounding literature as a terrorist or fascist movement that is entirely at odds with Western democratic ideology. Kai Hafez's book overturns these arguments, contending that, despite its excesses, as a radical form of political opposition the movement plays a central role in the processes of democratization and modernization, and that these processes have direct parallels in the history and politics of the West. By analyzing the evolution of Christian democratization through the upheavals of the Reformation, colonisation, fascism, and totalitarianism, the book shows how radicalism and violence were constant accompaniments to political change, and that these components - despite assertions to the contrary - are still part of Western political culture to this day.
Introduction Part I. Modernity 1. Concepts of modernity reform, reformation and radicalism 2. Political cultures and social movements the social rationality of cultural change Part II. Democracy 3. The discourse of democratization grey zones on the intersection of religion and secularism 4. Political system change the radicals' democracy Part III. Political Violence 5. Authoritarianism dictatorship between fascism and modernization 6. Imperialism autocracy, democracy and violence 7. Terrorism and non-violent resistance extremism and pacifism across cultures Conclusion from 'holy war' to democracy? The current state of Islamic and Western modernity.
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