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Religion, identity, and countering violent extremism

Religion, identity, and countering violent extremism / [Recurso electrónico] PDF .-- 030 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005 : The Atlantic Council of the United States , September 2016 .-- Recurso online, 25 p. .-- ;2016 . ;

In recent decades, Muslims have been debating political and social aspects of their religious teachings in new ways. The religious debates are connected to and sometimes stem in considerable part from underlying political and social trends demographic shifts; rising education; unaccountable and authoritarian governance; stuttering economic and governmental performance; and corruption. They cannot, however, be wholly reduced to those trends. Religion is not an isolated field, but neither is it simply a mask for other struggles; the terms and outcomes of religious debates matter in their own right.

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Religión Relaciones con las minorías--Identidad cultural Islamismo Radicalismo

Rafik Hariri Center For The Middle East