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54 books match the query 'Freedom of speech' and 2 start with r

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Radicalizing Men

Fascist Desires, Great Replacement Propaganda, and Political Violence

Jessica Johnson

Duke University Press, 2026

Ideological terms such as “Christian nationalism” or “far right” serve as shorthand for religious and political extremism but do not offer insight into why some men perpetrate political violence while others do not. Radicalizing Men analyzes radicalization as a social process, the networking of fascist desires, imaginaries, and feelings through great replacement propaganda enacted in sermons, during school board meetings, on campuses, and on digital platforms through algorithms, rhetoric, and memes. Jessica Johnson considers the affective—bodily, sensory, and emotional—processes of radicalization constitutive of political subjectivity and collective action to reassess medias, technologies, shootings, and policies that create and target racialized, religious, and gendered threats to imaginary white Christian homelands. Johnson explores how fascist desires move bodies in decentralized yet coordinated ways by examining the socioeconomic, infrastructural, and affective connections between neoliberal capitalism and militarized nationalism that proliferate citizen-soldiers and inspire them to commit transnationally linked acts of political violence as multiracial, multiethnic, and multifaith antifascist coalitions emerge to fight them.
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Religious Expression and the American Constitution

Franklyn S. Haiman

Michigan State University Press, 2003

First Amendment rights have been among the most fiercely debated topics in the aftermath of 9/11. In the current environment and fervor for “homeland security,” personal freedoms in exchange for security are coming under more scrutiny. Among these guaranteed freedoms are the protection of religious expression given by the U.S. Constitution and the constitutional prohibitions against behaviors that violate the separation of church and state. The mandate that the government “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” is a general principle that has guided American courts in interpreting the original intent of the First Amendment. In Religious Expression and the American Constitution, Haiman focuses on the current state of American law with respect to a broad range of controversial issues affecting religious expression, both verbal and nonverbal, along with a review of the recent history of each issue to provide a full understanding.

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