Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I : What is the fundamentalist mindset? -- Definitions and dualisms / Charles B. Strozier and Katharine Boyd -- Theories of group psychology, paranoia, and rage / David M. Terman -- The apocalyptic / Charles B. Strozier and Katharine Boyd -- The charismatic leader and the totalism of conversion / Charles B. Strozier, Katharine Boyd, and James W. Jones -- Pt. II : Motivations for violence -- Fundamentalism and the paranoid gestalt / David M. Terman -- The apocalyptic other / Charles B. Strozier -- The social psychology of humiliation and revenge : the origins of the fundamentalist mindset / Bettina Muenster and David Lotto -- Fundamentalist faith states : regulation theory as a framework for the psychology of religious fundamentalism / Daniel Hill -- Pt. III : Christian and American contexts -- Eternal warfare : violence on the mind of American apocalyptic Christianity / James W. Jones -- Opening the seven seals of fundamentalism / Charles B. Strozier -- The unsettling of the fundamentalist mindset : shifts in apocalyptic belief in contemporary conservative Christianity / Lee Quinby -- Pt. IV : Global and historical contexts -- The psychology of the global jihadists / Farhad Khosrokhavar -- Ordering chaos : Nazi millennialism and the quest for meaning / David Redles -- Rumor, fear, and paranoia in the French Revolution / David P. Jordan -- Hindu victimhood and India's Muslim minority / John R. McLane -- Conclusion : A fundamentalist mindset? / James W. Jones.