RELS 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bar Kokhba Revolt, Christian Identity, Aum Shinrikyo
11 Apr 2018
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Jihadism: a form of salafism that believes war is a sacred duty of all muslims. Isis is an apocalyptic group, jihadists believe that once they dominate and purify. Idea of boundary failure, radical threats to the construction of you own identity, violence can be used or defended as a defence against boundary threatening experiences, ex. growing refugee crises, this large group of people who are. Druze populations: consensus or way of forming themselves by social and religious values against the ways isis believes society should be constructed, becomes intolerable for these groups of people to live in the society: othering. Isis teaches that it is an all-consuming battle between true faith and apostasy: graphic pictures of violence (ex. 1400-1900 ended with the first world war, at its height controlled parts of eastern europe, controlled parts of the balkans, controlled turkey, egypt, northern africa,
