SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ben Gurion Airport, Islamic Fundamentalism, Early Modern Europe
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The rise, decline, and partial revival of religion. Religious revival and religious fundamentalism in the 90s, sociologists began to change their opinions on the idea of religion being dead. The social and political context of muslim fundamentalism. 1972 at lod international airport= first suicide attack in modern middle east history (members of. Japanese red army) they weren"t even linked to a religion, they were linked to the popular front for the liberation of. Kozo okamoto (sole surviving terrorist from attack) converts to islam and fundamentalism becomes a way for him to implement his political views religious fundamentalism often acts as a convenient vehicle for extremism ex. Al-qaeda is strongly antagonistic to american foreign policy in the middle east and so they use islamic fundamentalism to implement this opposition. As a result, religion governs an ever-smaller part of most people"s lives and has become largely a matter of personal choice.
