Book
Christian Faith, Race Ideology and Radicalisation
(2016)
Abstract
It is commonly known that radical Islamic extremism has been the motivation for many terror attacks around the world. This book will attempt to demonstrate that racist Christian doctrines have also prompted radicalism and violence and have the potential to prompt mass casualty attacks. The book will examine two key questions. First, “What Christian radicals, with an extreme ideology of race, exist today?” Secondly, “What would it take to change their radicalisation from radical words to radical actions?” The first part will be a factual inquiry into the basis for racist Christian doctrines and identify the followers of such doctrines. I will describe the varieties of racist Christian doctrines and explain something of their underlying philosophies. The second part will be somewhat speculative. In the light of other religiously motivated terrorism in the world today, it will raise the question, “If a minority of adherents of one religion have turned to extremism and mass violence, what would it take for an analogous group of radicals within Christianity equally to express themselves through analogous mass-casualty violence?
Keywords
- Racism,
- Christian religion,
- extremism,
- terrorism,
- fundamentalism
Disciplines
Publication Date
December, 2016
Publisher
Novum Organum
ISBN
978-0-9945013-1-8
Citation Information
Matthew Ogilvie. Christian Faith, Race Ideology and Radicalisation. Perth(2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/matthew-ogilvie/6/