My dissertation approaches the issue of Muslim radicalization in the West from the standpoint of comparative religious ethics (CRE). As practitioners of a discipline rooted in the analysis of arguments, scholars of comparative religious ethics naturally approach issues such as radicalization by attending to the various forms of discursive reasoning involved. The best such studies historicize the discourse and attend to the kinds of procedures involved in their validation. So too, these studies generally offer a form of immanent critique and, often, work to put one tradition in dialogue with another tradition (Christian and Confucian forms of virtue, for example, or Islamic thought and human rights). My thesis is that studies in CRE could benefit from the insights of other disciplines that investigate the place of arguments in determining human behavior. More specifically, I contend that understanding radicalization requires more than the analysis of discursive reasoning. By attending to the general insights of fields such as social psychology and behavioral economics as well as specific studies that deal with radicalization, I argue that religious arguments are only part of a very large and complex set of phenomena including sociopolitical factors, developmental psychology, economics, and racism, that contribute to radicalization. At the same time, however, arguments are important, and scholars of comparative religious ethics are able to contribute to our understanding of radicalization by historicizing and analyzing the religious forms of reason-giving that are used to justify radicalization. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Religion in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Spring Semester 2018. / February 28, 2018. / Comparative Ethics, Ethics, Radicalization, Religion / Includes bibliographical references. / John Kelsay, Professor Directing Dissertation; Michael Ruse, University Representative; Adam Gaiser, Committee Member; Sumner B. Twiss, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_654741 |
| Contributors | Moret, Ross (author), Kelsay, John, 1953- (professor directing dissertation), Ruse, Michael (university representative), Gaiser, Adam R., 1971- (committee member), Twiss, Sumner B. (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Arts and Sciences (degree granting college), Department of Religion (degree granting departmentdgg) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text, doctoral thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (301 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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