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Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream

Christopher Bail 2014 © Princeton University Press

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9781400852628 (ebook)
9780691159423 (hardcover)

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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Acronyms
Chapter 1 The Cultural Environment of Collective Behavior
- How Civil Society Organizations Create Cultural Change
- The Argument
- Studying Cultural Change with Big Data
- Outline of the Book
Chapter 2 From the Slave Trade to the September 11th Attacks
- Civil Society Organizations and Islam in Early American History
- The Middle East Conflict
- The Emergence of the Mainstream
- The Foundation of the Fringe
Chapter 3 The September 11th Attacks and the Rise of Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations
- Shaping Shared Understandings of Islam in the Media
- Making the News
- Why Fringe Organizations Fascinate
- Studying the Evolution of Shared Understandings of Islam in the Mass Media
- Islam in the American Media, 2001–3
- The Fearful Fringe
Chapter 4 The Rip Tide: Mainstream Muslim Organizations Respond
- Condemning Terrorism
- Condemning the Fringe
- Splintering within the Mainstream
Chapter 5 Fringe Benefits: How Anti-Muslim Organizations Became Mainstream
- Fringe Networks
- From the Fringe to the Mainstream
- How Fringe Organizations Became Authorities about Islam
Chapter 6 The Return of the Repressed in the Policy Process
- Casting Mainstream Muslim Organizations as Radicals
- Marginalizing Mainstream Muslims from the Policy Process
- Barack Hussein Obama: The 2008 Election
- Local Politics and the Growth of Anti-Shariʾah Legislation
- Training Counterterrorism Agents
Chapter 7 Civil Society Organizations and Public Understandings of Islam
- The Struggle to Shape American Public Attitudes toward Islam
- Using Big Data to Study How Civil Society Organizations Shape Public Understandings of Islam
- Anti-Mosque Activity
Chapter 8 The Evolution of Cultural Environments
- Lost in Translation
- Lessons Learned
- The Evolution of Cultural Environments
Methodological Appendix: Sampling Civil Society Organizations and Press Releases
- Mapping Cultural Environments
- Measuring Social Psychological Processes
- Tracing the Evolution of Culture Using Plagiarism Detection Software
- Alternative Explanations of Cultural Change
- In-Depth Interviews
Notes
References
Index