American academic (born 1954)
Jeffrey Kaplan (born 1954) is an American academic who has written and edited a number of books on racism , religious violence , terrorism and the far-right . He is an associate professor of religion at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh and a member of the board of academic advisors of the university's Institute for the Study of Religion, Violence and Memory.[1]
Kaplan sits on the editorial boards of the journals Terrorism and Political Violence , Nova Religio and The Pomegranate .[1]
Kaplan earned an M.A. in Linguistics from Colorado State University in 1981, a M.A. in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1989, and earned a Ph.D. in the history of culture from the University of Chicago in 1993.[2] His thesis was titled "Revolutionary Millenarianism in the Modern World: From Christian Identity to Gush Emunim ".[3]
Kaplan was an associate professor of history at Iḷisaġvik College in Utqiagvik, Alaska .[4]
Kaplan was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant for a project on "The Emergence of a Violent Euro-American Radical Right" with Leonard Weinberg .[5] Kaplan occupied the Bicentennial Fulbright Chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland from 1998 to 1999.[6]
Radical Religion in America: Millenarian Movements From the Far Right to the Children of Noah (1997). Published by Syracuse University Press as a 245-page hardcover (ISBN 0815626878 ) and paperback (ISBN 0815603967 ).
Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture (1998; co-edited with Tore Bjørgo ). Published in Boston by Northeastern University Press as a 273-page hardcover (ISBN 1555533329 ) and paperback (ISBN 1555533310 ).
The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right (1998; co-authored with Leonard Weinberg). Published in New Brunswick, New Jersey , by Rutgers University Press as a 238-page hardcover (ISBN 0813525632 ) and paperback (ISBN 0813525640 ).
Beyond the Mainstream: The Emergence of Religious Pluralism in Finland , Estonia , and Russia (2000). Published in Helsinki by SKS as a 386-page hardcover? (ISBN 9517461801 ).
Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right (2000). Published in Walnut Creek, California , by Altamira Press as a 585-page hardcover in 2000 (ISBN 0742503402 ).
The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization (2002; co-edited with Heléne Lööw [sv ] ). Published in Walnut Creek, California , by AltaMira Press as a 353-page hardcover (ISBN 0759102031 ) and paperback (ISBN 075910204X ).
Millennial Violence: Past, Present and Future (2002; as editor). Originally appearing as a special issue of Terrorism and Political Violence (Vol. 14, No. 1; Spring 2002), it was published in London and Portland, Oregon by F. Cass as a 318-page hardcover (ISBN 0714652946 ) and paperback (ISBN 0714682594 ).
The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (2005; consulting editor, with editor-in-chief Bron Taylor ). Published in London and New York by Thoemmes Continuum in 2 volumes, totaling 1877 pages, in hardcover (ISBN 1843711389 ). It was published in paperback in 2008 (ISBN 1847062733 )
Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism: Terrorism's Fifth Wave (2010). Published in Abingdon, Oxon , and New York by Routledge as a 235-page hardcover (ISBN 0415453380 ) and e-book (ISBN 0203857526 ).
Radical Religion and Violence: Theory and Case Studies Published in New York by Routledge as a 496-page hardcover (ISBN 0415814146 )
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