While the themes of radicalization and Islamophobia have been broadly addressed by academia to
date there has been little investigation of the crosspollination between the two. Is
Islamophobia a significant catalyst or influence on radicalization and recruitment? How do
radicalization and Islamophobia interact operate feed one another and ultimately pull
societies toward polar extremes in domestic and foreign policy? The wide-ranging and global
contributions collected here explore these questions through perspectives grounded in sociology
political theory psychology and religion. The volume provides an urgently needed and timely
examination of the root causes of both radicalization and Islamophobia the cultural
construction and consumption of radical and Islamophobic discourses the local and global
contexts that fertilize these extreme stances and finally the everyday Muslim in the shadow
of these opposing but equally vociferous forces.
