By Ami Pedahzur
This e-book explores the relationships among fundamentalist spiritual trust, political extremism and outbreaks of religiously encouraged violence. Is the post-Cold battle global more and more violent and is that this violence the results of strident spiritual understandings of the way societies could be equipped?
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38 were first to test empirically the relationship between (alternative) religious beliefs, and extreme right-wing politics—the inclination to adopt antidemocratic attitudes. 39 In recent decades, Western democracies have become aware of a growing inclination towards the adoption of alternative religions. Since the beginning of modern democracy, researchers and policy-makers have dealt with the mutual existence of a democratic government and organised religiosity with political inclinations. Democracy is based on pluralistic, public and polemic principles and rule of the majority, whereas religion is based on the belief in the absolute and invisible— eternal truths about God.
86 Those who are extremely conservative, including politically, are reluctant to change, and are prone to believe in the power of astrologers, palm readers and other ‘futurologists’. 88 Superstitious beliefs, like the belief in the power of astrology, were major ingredients of the fascistic archetype; they were also at the basis of national socialism. Superstitious behaviour—a cruel thought or a death wish of an individual towards himself or another person, gives rise to feelings of guilt leading to anticipation of punishment, expressed in the form of superstitious conception of the lack of good luck, or the bringing of bad luck.
As a general social-psychological phenomenon, fundamentalist ideology has been described as the belief that there is one set of religious teachings that clearly contains the fundamental, basic, intrinsic, essential, inerrant truth about humanity and the deities; that this truth is opposed by forces of evil which must be vigorously 28 RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM AND POLITICAL EXTREMISM fought; that this truth must be followed according to unchangeable traditions; and that those who espouse this ideology have a special relationship with the deities.