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This book explores social movements by analyzing an escalating spiral of tension between the Patriot movement and the state centered on the mutual framing of conflict as 'warfare'. By examining the social construction of 'warfare' as a principal script or frame defining the movement-state dynamic, Stuart A. Wright explains how this highly charged confluence of a war narrative engendered a kind of symbiosis leading to the escalation of a mutual threat that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing. Wright offers a unique perspective on the events leading up to the bombing because he served as a consultant to Timothy McVeigh's defense team for eighteen months and draws on primary data based on face-to-face interviews with McVeigh. The book contends that McVeigh was firmly entrenched in the Patriot movement and was part of a network of 'warrior cells' that planned and implemented the bombing.

Government, Resistance to --- Militia movements --- Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995. --- Radicalism --- Social problems --- Polemology --- Sociology of cultural policy --- United States --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Political science --- Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995 --- Bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995 --- Murrah Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995 --- Bombings --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- United States of America

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"This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Why do religions fail or die? Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores this important question that has received little scholarly attention to date. International contributors provide case studies from the United States, England, Sweden, Japan, New Guinea, and France resulting in a work that explores processes of attenuation, disintegration, transmutation, death, and extinction across cultures. These include: instances where mass suicides or homicides resulted in religious dissolution; the fall of Mars Hills Church and its larger-than-life megachurch pastor, accused of plagiarism and bullying in 2012; the death of the last member of the Panacea Society in England in 2012; and the disintegration of Knutby Filadelfia, a religious community in Sweden with Pentecostal roots that ceased to exist in May 2018 after a pastor shot his wife. Combining case studies and theoretical contributions, The Demise of Religion: How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate fills a gap in literature to date and paves the way for future research."--

Religions --- Religion and culture --- Irreligion --- Non-belief --- Unbelief --- Philosophy --- Atheism --- Religion --- Culture and religion --- Culture --- History.