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Religious spaces as continually evolving modernities: Forms of encounter with modernity in Christian Orthodoxy and Islam
2022
The present study deals with the encounter with modernity in two neighbouring religious spaces: Christian Orthodoxy and Islam. Relying on Eisenstadt’s theory about multiple modernities and on its further developments by Thomas Mergel and Kristina Stoeckl, Islamic and Christian-Orthodox dynamics in relation to the challenges of modernity are examined under two aspects: first, the decoupling between religion and culture as elaborated by Olivier Roy, and second, the development of modernist and fundamentalist currents as phenomena of modernity. The study contributes to the sketching of the profile of Islamic and the Christian-Orthodox modernities, pointing both to some of the commonalities and…
Political Extremism and Rationality
2002
Political extremism is widely considered to be the product of irrational behavior. Originally published in 2002, the distinguishing feature of this collection by well-known economists and political scientists from North America, Europe and Australia is to propose a variety of explanations which all insist on the rationality of extremism. Contributors use variants of this approach to shed light on subjects such as the conditions under which democratic parties take extremist positions, the relationship between extremism and conformism, the strategies adopted by revolutionary movements, and the reasons why extremism often leads to violence. The authors identify four core issues in the study of…
Fondamentalismi e radicalismi nel mondo arabo contemporaneo
2016
Osservando ed analizzando i recenti mutamenti politici, economici nonché sociali che stanno attraversando, seppur con intensità variabile, il mondo arabo ed islamico, non è possibile non sottolineare quanto le contemporanee fenomenologie, politiche quanto sociali, legate all’islamismo siano determinanti nel determinare il futuro del Nord Africa come anche del Vicino e Medio oriente. Lungi dall’essere relegate in secondo piano, tali fenomenologie si affermano sullo scenario mediatico internazionale divenendo oggetto di interesse tanto per studiosi ed accademici quanto, soprattutto, per l’opinione pubblica generale la quale si trova a dover maneggiare, senza averne invero troppa familiarità, …
Modelos de organización política de la UMMA en la historia del pensamiento islámico
2011
ResumenEn el presente artículo, se estudian los modelos más representativos de organización política de la comunidad islámica o Umma en la historia del pensamiento islámico. Como introducción al tema, se analiza el papel central que ocupa el concepto de Umma como eje vertebrador de las relaciones entre religión y política en el Islam. Posteriormente, se exponen las principales posiciones acerca del gobierno de la Umma, desde los tiempos del Profeta hasta la actualidad. Por último, se propone la necesidad de desarrollar una completa y sistemática teoría sobre el modelo de organización política más acorde con una concepción democrática de la Umma.Abstract In this work the most representative …
Terrorism in the Balkans. Genesis - trends - forecasts
2018
The author of the article presents a phenomenon of terrorism in the Balkans throughout the 19th, 20th an 21st centuries. She highlights a thesis that specific phenomenon of terrorism in the region requires additional studies, mostly of heuristic nature. Among the types of Balkan terrorism there is terrorism connected to national and liberation movements and political terrorism. Furthermore, terrorist actions in Romania and Bulgaria, terrorism of the Ustashe and terrorism of the anti-Yugoslav emigration and other its forms have been indicated. A particular attention has been paid to terrorism connected to extreme streams of Islam, which appeared in the Balkans as the aftermath of the civil w…
Political, Economic and Cultural Infl uences of neo-Ottomanism in post-Yugoslavian Countries. An Analysis Illustrated with Selected Examples
2017
Political, Economic and Cultural Infl uences of neo-Ottomanism in post-Yugoslavian Countries. An Analysis Illustrated with Selected Examples