Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic

The multidisciplinary anthology Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic provides deep insights concerning the current impact of Covid-19 on various religious groups and believers around the world. Based on contributions of well-known scholars in the field of Religious Fundamentalism, the contributors offer about a window into the origins of religious fundamentalism and the development of these movements as well as the creation of the category itself. Further recommendations regarding specific (fundamentalist) religious groups and actors and their possible development within Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Judaism round up the discussion about the rise of Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of 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.