{"product_id":"terrified-9780691173634","title":"Terrified","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though he ended up canceling the stunt in the face of widespread public backlash, his threat sparked violent protests across the Muslim world that left at least twenty people\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2016 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2015 ARNOVA Award for Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Honorable Mention for the 2016 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association \"The book not only lays bare the behind-the-scenes story of a momentous shift in public opinion, it employs cutting-edge computer analysis techniques applied to large archives of data to develop a new theoretical outlook, capable of making sense of the whole field of competing organizations struggling to shape public opinion, not just studying one or two the most successful ones. The result is not only a detailed account of a specific, significant, and also very pernicious example of cultural evolution, but also a case study in how to more rigorously study cultural evolution more generally in the future.\"--Paul Rosenberg, Salon \"Bail quite effectively shows how and why anti-Muslim content and 'experts' worked their way into positions of prominence, even though they were not well funded or well connected in the immediate aftermath of 9\/11. Terrified is highly recommended for all levels.\"--Choice \"A fascinating exploration of the rising influence of anti- Muslim fringe organizations in the United States after September 11, 2001... This book represents a veritable methodological primer for researchers interested in measuring collective meaning.\"--Mary-Hunter McDonnell, Administrative Science Quarterly \"Terrified is a major contribution to the scholarship on the public influence of anti-Muslin organizations and the role of the media in empowering them.\"--Todd Green, Political Science Quarterly \"Bail's account is complex, nuanced, and quite persuasive. In fact, it is an outstanding example of long-form work in the emerging 'big data' genre. The seamless interweaving of qualitative and computational methods often distinguishes the best work in computational sociology. Bail's work is no exception... I expect that Terrified will be an essential guide to many storms brewing on the cultural horizon, and I am glad that Bail has given it to us.\"--Jacob G. Foster, American Journal of Sociology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix  List of Tables xi  Acknowledgments xiii  Acronyms xvii  Chapter 1 1  The Cultural Environment of Collective Behavior 1  How Civil Society Organizations Create Cultural Change 5  The Argument 9  Studying Cultural Change with Big Data 11  Outline of the Book 12  Chapter 2 17  From the Slave Trade to the September 11th Attacks 17  Civil Society Organizations and Islam in Early American History 19  The Middle East Conflict 20  The Emergence of the Mainstream 23  The Foundation of the Fringe 28  Chapter 3 33  The September 11th Attacks and the Rise of Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations 33  Shaping Shared Understandings of Islam in the Media 37  Making the News 38  Why Fringe Organizations Fascinate 39  Studying the Evolution of Shared Understandings of Islam in the Mass Media 42  Islam in the American Media, 2001-3 43  The Fearful Fringe 46  Chapter 4 53  The Rip Tide: Mainstream Muslim Organizations Respond 53  Condemning Terrorism 54  Condemning the Fringe 58  Splintering within the Mainstream 61  Chapter 5 67  Fringe Benefits: How Anti-Muslim Organizations Became Mainstream 67  Fringe Networks 68  From the Fringe to the Mainstream 72  How Fringe Organizations Became Authorities about Islam 76  Chapter 6 87  The Return of the Repressed in the Policy Process 87  Casting Mainstream Muslim Organizations as Radicals 89  Marginalizing Mainstream Muslims from the Policy Process 95  Barack Hussein Obama: The 2008 Election 97  Local Politics and the Growth of Anti-Shari'ah Legislation 99  Training Counterterrorism Agents 104  Chapter 7 109  Civil Society Organizations and Public Understandings of Islam 109  The Struggle to Shape American Public Attitudes toward Islam 110  Using Big Data to Study How Civil Society Organizations Shape Public Understandings of Islam 114  Anti-Mosque Activity 121  Chapter 8 131  The Evolution of Cultural Environments 131  Lost in Translation 133  Lessons Learned 134  The Evolution of Cultural Environments 139  Methodological Appendix 141  Sampling Civil Society Organizations and Press Releases 141  Mapping Cultural Environments 145  Measuring Social Psychological Processes 148  Tracing the Evolution of Culture Using Plagiarism Detection Software 149  Alternative Explanations of Cultural Change 151  In-Depth Interviews 156  Notes 159  References 189  Index 213","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403840889175,"sku":"9780691173634","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691173634.jpg?v=1730484686","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/terrified-9780691173634","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}