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Fundamentalists: In With The 'Out' Crowd

The 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon brought the phenomenon of religious fundamentalism to the world\'s attention. Six years of conflict and debate later, we still understand very little about how and why people join fundamentalist movements and embrace a set of beliefs and behaviour which are destructively counter-cultural. Peter Herriot\'s new book Religious Fundamentalism and Social Identity (published by Psychology Press, 2007) uses current Social Identity Theory

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