Amarnath Amarasingam

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Amarnath Amarasingam's Degrees

PhD Political Science Wilfrid Laurier University
Masters Political Science Wilfrid Laurier University

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According to Wikipedia, Amarnath Amarasingam is a Canadian extremism researcher. Career Amarasingam studied religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University from 2007 to 2011. Since September 2011 he teaches as a lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University, since January 2012 additionally at the University of Waterloo. 2013 he was awarded a PhD with a thesis on social movement activism, his doctoral advisor was Lorne L. Dawson. From May 2014 to May 2016, he conducted research with a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council as a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University. He is a senior research fellow at the London Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a fellow in the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security extremism program and since January 2017 directs a study on Western Foreign Fighters at the University of Waterloo.

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Pain, Pride, and Politics: Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada (2015) (79)
Talking to Foreign Fighters: Insights into the Motivations for Hijrah to Syria and Iraq (2017) (77)
Understanding fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish movements (2010) (30)
Jihadists on Social Media : A Critique of Data Collection Methodologies (2018) (24)
Religion and Ethnicity among Sri Lankan Tamil Youth in Ontario (2010) (24)
Touring “Terrorism”: Landscapes of Memory in Post-War Sri Lanka (2014) (23)
Laughter the Best Medicine: Muslim Comedians and Social Criticism in Post-9/11 America (2010) (18)
Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal (2010) (17)
New age spirituality, quantum mysticism and self-psychology: changing ourselves from the inside out (2009) (14)
The association between discrimination and violence among Somali Canadian youth (2017) (12)
Transcending Technology: Looking at Futurology as a New Religious Movement (2008) (12)
Canadian Multiculturalism as Banal Nationalism: Understanding Everyday Meanings Among Sri Lankan Tamils in Toronto (2016) (10)
1. Introduction: What Is The New Atheism? (2010) (8)
Haters Gonna “Like”: Exploring Canadian Far-Right Extremism on Facebook (2020) (7)
Where Do ISIS Fighters Go When the Caliphate Falls (2017) (5)
The Cultural, the Nominal, and the Secular: The Social Reality of Religious Identity Among Sri Lankan Tamil Youth in Canada (2015) (4)
Mobilizing extremism online: comparing Australian and Canadian right-wing extremist groups on Facebook (2021) (4)
“Fight, Die, and If Required Kill”: Hindu Nationalism, Misinformation, and Islamophobia in India (2022) (4)
The Impact of Conspiracy Theories and How to Counter Them: Reviewing the Literature on Conspiracy Theories and Radicalization to Violence (2019) (3)
The Rise and Fall of the New Atheism: Identity Politics and Tensions within u.s. Nonbelievers (2016) (3)
Diaspora, Development, and Intra-community Politics: Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada and Post-War Debates (2016) (3)
To Err in their Ways: The Attribution Biases of the New Atheists (2010) (3)
Religious Literacy in Law: Anti-Muslim Initiatives in Quebec, the United States, and India (2021) (2)
The Houthi Hezbollah (2016) (2)
Diaspora Geopolitics in Toronto: Tamil Nationalism and the Aftermath of War in Sri Lanka (2020) (2)
Pain, Pride, and Politics (2015) (2)
How conspiracy theorists argue: epistemic capital in the QAnon social media sphere (2022) (1)
Ecofascism: An Examination of the Far-Right/Ecology Nexus in the Online Space (2022) (1)
They Got It All under Control: (2021) (1)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Book Notes (2009) (0)
8. Religion, Politics, And Tamil Militancy In Sri Lanka And The Diaspora (2014) (0)
3. Canadian Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq, 2012–16 (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (2012) (0)
Stephen Prothero, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – and Doesn't (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007, $24.95). Pp. 233. isbn 0 06084 670 4. (2008) (0)
Baghdadi's Death Will Make Global Affiliates More Independent (2019) (0)
Beware the New Mujahideen: The Threat from Future Jihadist Networks (2017) (0)
A Comparative Analysis of Australian and Canadian Foreign Fighters Traveling to Syria and Iraq (2022) (0)
The Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield (2009) (0)
Web Reviews Al Gore, The Assault on Reason (New York: The Penguin Press, 2007, $25.95). Pp. 273. isbn 1 59420 122 6. (2008) (0)
Contributors to this Issue (2010) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
Turning the page on extremism (2020) (0)
The Illusive Motive Requirement In Canada's Terrorism Offences: Defining and Distinguishing Ideology, Religion, and Politics (2022) (0)
Foucault, Discipline and the Self: Exploring Mary's Relationship with God in The Nativity Story (2016) (0)
Protests as Sites of Learning: A Case Study of the Sri Lankan Tamil and Anishinaabe Demonstrations in Canada (2023) (0)
Migration, Mobilization, and Memory: The Sri Lankan Civil War in the Lives of Tamil Youth (2016) (0)
Sayyid Qutb: The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (2014) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)

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