Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Terrified : How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream / Chris Bail.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries onlyDescription: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780691159423
  • 9781400852628
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.6970973 23
LOC classification:
  • BP52 .B35 2015
  • BP52 .B35 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Chapter 1. The Cultural Environment of Collective Behavior -- Chapter 2. From the Slave Trade to the September 11th Attacks -- Chapter 3. The September 11th Attacks and the Rise of Anti-Muslim -- Chapter 4. The Rip Tide: Mainstream Muslim Organizations Respond -- Chapter 5. Fringe Benefits: How Anti-Muslim Organizations Became -- Chapter 6. The Return of the Repressed in the Policy Process -- Chapter 7. Civil Society Organizations and Public Understandings -- Chapter 8. The Evolution of Cultural Environments -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: 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 across the Muslim world that left at least twenty people dead. In Terrified, Christopher Bail demonstrates how the beliefs of fanatics like Jones are inspired by a rapidly expanding network of anti-Muslim organizations that exert profound influence on American understanding of Islam.Bail traces how the anti-Muslim narrative of the political fringe has captivated large segments of the American media, government, and general public, validating the views of extremists who argue that the United States is at war with Islam and marginalizing mainstream Muslim-Americans who are uniquely positioned to discredit such claims. Drawing on cultural sociology, social network theory, and social psychology, he shows how anti-Muslim organizations gained visibility in the public sphere, commandeered a sense of legitimacy, and redefined the contours of contemporary debate, shifting it ever outward toward the fringe. Bail illustrates his pioneering theoretical argument through a big-data analysis of more than one hundred organizations struggling to shape public discourse about Islam, tracing their impact on hundreds of thousands of newspaper articles, television transcripts, legislative debates, and social media messages produced since the September 11 attacks. The book also features in-depth interviews with the leaders of these organizations, providing a rare look at how anti-Muslim organizations entered the American mainstream.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781400852628

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Chapter 1. The Cultural Environment of Collective Behavior -- Chapter 2. From the Slave Trade to the September 11th Attacks -- Chapter 3. The September 11th Attacks and the Rise of Anti-Muslim -- Chapter 4. The Rip Tide: Mainstream Muslim Organizations Respond -- Chapter 5. Fringe Benefits: How Anti-Muslim Organizations Became -- Chapter 6. The Return of the Repressed in the Policy Process -- Chapter 7. Civil Society Organizations and Public Understandings -- Chapter 8. The Evolution of Cultural Environments -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

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 across the Muslim world that left at least twenty people dead. In Terrified, Christopher Bail demonstrates how the beliefs of fanatics like Jones are inspired by a rapidly expanding network of anti-Muslim organizations that exert profound influence on American understanding of Islam.Bail traces how the anti-Muslim narrative of the political fringe has captivated large segments of the American media, government, and general public, validating the views of extremists who argue that the United States is at war with Islam and marginalizing mainstream Muslim-Americans who are uniquely positioned to discredit such claims. Drawing on cultural sociology, social network theory, and social psychology, he shows how anti-Muslim organizations gained visibility in the public sphere, commandeered a sense of legitimacy, and redefined the contours of contemporary debate, shifting it ever outward toward the fringe. Bail illustrates his pioneering theoretical argument through a big-data analysis of more than one hundred organizations struggling to shape public discourse about Islam, tracing their impact on hundreds of thousands of newspaper articles, television transcripts, legislative debates, and social media messages produced since the September 11 attacks. The book also features in-depth interviews with the leaders of these organizations, providing a rare look at how anti-Muslim organizations entered the American mainstream.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)

Previous
Back to results
Next
Close