Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-07-11 20:25 | Report Abuse

What lessons come out of studying fundamentalism, the psychology of religion and radicalisation?

(1) Religion is a robust human experience and cultural product
that adopts a defensive shape when its worldview is threatened.

(2) This does not mean that all "fundamentalisms" or radical versions of religion are somehow linked or perform similar functions; rather, they reflect the limited human repertoire to threat, yet within different cultural and historical contexts.

(3) Causal explanations on the level of the individual are
insufficient to understand these movements.

(4) There is a modernist trend to elevate word-based, rational knowing over more implicit, symbolic knowing in both fundamentalism and radical discourses. Fundamentalism and radicalized religion seem to be the left brain's attempt to "do" religion. And, it does this now even more separately from the right brain compared to previous eras.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-07-11 21:23 | Report Abuse

Practically, the circumstances leading to their involvement in violence include difficulties in employment, dissatisfaction with moderate and liberal in-group's organisations; and distrust of the non-believers/ out-group.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-07-11 21:24 | Report Abuse

Ideologically, a global conspiracy to destroy it and moral justification for use of violence to defend repressed followers locally and across the world are common excuses.