Terrified : How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream /
In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though he ended up canceling the stunt in the face of widespread public backlash, his threat sparked violent protests ac...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms
- CHAPTER 1 The Cultural Environment of Collective Behavior
- How Civil Society Organizations Create Cultural Change
- The Argument
- Studying Cultural Change with Big Data
- Outline of the Book
- CHAPTER 2 From the Slave Trade to the September 11th Attacks
- Civil Society Organizations and Islam in Early American History
- The Middle East Conflict
- The Emergence of the Mainstream
- The Foundation of the Fringe
- CHAPTER 3 The September 11th Attacks and the Rise of Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations
- Shaping Shared Understandings of Islam in the Media
- Making the News
- Why Fringe Organizations Fascinate
- Studying the Evolution of Shared Understandings of Islam in the Mass Media
- Islam in the American Media, 2001-3
- The Fearful Fringe
- CHAPTER 4 The Rip Tide Mainstream Muslim Organizations Respond
- Condemning Terrorism
- Condemning the Fringe
- Splintering within the Mainstream
- CHAPTER 5 Fringe Benefits How Anti-Muslim Organizations Became Mainstream
- Fringe Networks
- From the Fringe to the Mainstream
- How Fringe Organizations Became Authorities about Islam
- CHAPTER 6 The Return of the Repressed in the Policy Process
- Casting Mainstream Muslim Organizations as Radicals
- Marginalizing Mainstream Muslims from the Policy Process
- Barack Hussein Obama: The 2008 Election
- Local Politics and the Growth of Anti-Shariʼah Legislation
- Training Counterterrorism Agents
- CHAPTER 7 Civil Society Organizations and Public Understandings of Islam
- The Struggle to Shape American Public Attitudes toward Islam
- Using Big Data to Study How Civil Society Organizations Shape Public Understandings of Islam
- Anti-Mosque Activity
- CHAPTER 8 The Evolution of Cultural Environments
- Lost in Translation.
- Lessons Learned
- The Evolution of Cultural Environments
- METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX Sampling Civil Society Organizations and Press Releases
- Mapping Cultural Environments
- Measuring Social Psychological Processes
- Tracing the Evolution of Culture Using Plagiarism Detection Software
- Alternative Explanations of Cultural Change
- In-Depth Interviews
- Notes
- References
- Index.