極端な信念と行動の説明：理論・方法・倫理的課題 Explaining Extreme Belief and Behavior : Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Challenges (Extreme Belief and Behavior Series)

Peels, Rik (EDT)/ Dawson, Lorne L. (EDT)

Oxford University Press Inc（2026/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 424 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780197768884

Full Description

Written by global, multidisciplinary experts, Explaining Extreme Belief and Behavior moves beyond definitions of the phenomena of conspiracy theorizing, extremism, fanaticism, fundamentalism, and terrorism and shifts into how we can explain these extreme beliefs and behaviors. The first part of the book examines various fundamental theoretical and contextual issues such as the relationship between understanding and explaining extremism, challenges in explaining extreme beliefs, and pitfalls of current approaches. The second part delves into related methodological issues, including the desiderata for viable explanations--qualitative and quantitative data, macro-, meso-, and microlevels of analysis, first- and third-person accounts, attitudes and behaviors, or beliefs and actions. The third part explores related empirical issues and challenges--how we conceive and integrate insights into such related phenomena as the turn to extremism in particular contexts, the rise of extremist movements, and radicalization. This volume builds upon the first two in the Extreme Belief and Behavior Series by studying the very project of explaining extreme belief and behavior.

Contents

Rik Peels and Lorne L. Dawson: Introduction: The Project of Explaining Extreme Belief and Behavior
Part I. Theoretical and Contextual Issues and Challenges
1: Rik Peels: Explaining and Understanding Extremism: The Relation Btween Two Aims in Radicalization Studies
2: Martha Crenshaw: Explaining Terrorism and Violent Extremism
3: Naomi Kloosterboer and Jaron Harambam: The Extreme Actor's Perspective, and Why It Matters for Explanation
4: Karsten R. Stueber: Empathy, Imaginative Resistance, and Fragmentary Understanding: Trying to Make Sense of Extremism
5: Lorne L. Dawson: Assessing the Constructivist Critique of the Evidential Value of Terrorists' Accounts of Their Actions
Part II. Methodological and Ethical Issues and Challenges
6: Lorne L. Dawson: The Matrix of Methodological Problems in the Study of Extreme Beliefs and Behaviors: From the Vantage Point of the Study of Violent Extremism
7: Lianne Vostermans: Integrating Macro-, Meso-, and Microlevel Explanations of Violent Mobilization
8: Martijn de Koning: Accessing the Field, Defining People, and Exploring Extended Complicity: Reflections on a Framework for Ethnographic Research with Militant Activists
9: John F. Morrison: Ethical Challenges and Multidisciplinary Norms in Terrorism Studies
10: Laura Feldt: Narrativity and Emotionality in Explaining Extreme Beliefs and Behaviors
Part III. Empirical Issues and Challenges
11: Emily Corner: Explaining the Links Between Poor Mental Health and Violent Extremism: From the Determination of Presence to the Delineation of Relevance
12: Elizabeth Pearson: Radicalization as Gendered: Why We Cannot Explain Extremism Without Taking Gender Seriously
13: Marc-André Argentino: Explaining QAnon as Lived Religion
14: Bethan Johnson: In No One We Trust: How Conspiratorial Thinking Turned White Supremacist Groups Anti-American
15: Ayhan Kaya: Nativist and Islamist Radicalism in Europe: Co-Radicalization of Young European Citizens
16: Ian McGregor: Psychological Motivation for Reactive Extremism, and How to Quell It