The outbreaks of religious fanaticism in modern times
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2004v9n1p171Keywords:
Religious fanatics, Modernity, Contemporary history.Abstract
This article analyzes the phenomenon of religious fanatism in the contemporary world, its manifestations in the Western and Eastern Word through the perspective that they represent a specific form of reaction against the disentanglement brought by the modernity advance. Until now, it is easy to conclude that the religious fanatics have come to stay.References
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