»The volume should be useful for both academics and P/CVE practitioners who arengaged with radicalization and religious extremism.«

»Das Buch ist im Lichte der nach wie vor nicht abgewendeten Bedrohung durch das Virus eine sehr interessante und erhellende Lektüre, die globale Verflechtungen [...] aufzeigt und darüber hinaus eine wertvolle Auswertung sehr heterogenen Materials aus dem Bereich der religiösen Extremismusforschung beispielhaft anbietet.«

»I recommend this anthology as a guideline for both science and practice in order to strengthen our understanding of religious perceptions of contagion, fear, debt, and faith that are responsible for the interaction between certain religious groups and their environment during a pandemic.«

»Overall, it is an important book which draws our attention to the rise in religious fundatmentalism and the way fundamentalist groups responded to the pandemic.«

Nina Käsehage, born in 1978, is an historian and religious scholar. Since 2017, she is a senior lecturer at the Department for Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology (Faculty of Theology) at the University of Rostock. In 2018, she received her Ph.D. for her basic research about the contemporary Salafist and Jihadist milieu in Germany from the Department of Religious Studies (Faculty of Philosophy) at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. Her main research interests are Islamic Radicalization, New Religious Movements, Qualitative Religious Research, Religious Fundamentalism, Psychology and Sociology of Religion.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 7
Cultural Wars and Communal Perseverance: Jewish Fundamentalism in Our Time 25
The Impact of Covid-19 on Orthodox Groups and Believers in Russia 47
Towards a Covid-Jihad - Millennialism in the field of Jihadism 81
How Central Asian Salafi-Jihadi Groups are Exploiting the Covid-19 Pandemic: New Opportunities and Challenges 107
Islamic Fundamentalism Framing Politics in Mali: From the Middle Ages to the Age of Pandemic 149
Global Virus, International Lamas: Tibetan Religious Leaders in the Face of the Covid-19 Crisis 179
Dismantling Prejudices on Muslim Communities in Italy in Times of Pandemic: not just Religious Fundamentalism 221
Religious Fundamentalism - A Misleading Concept? 251
List of figures 263
List of authors 273