![]() ![]() After 9-11, Dr Bramadat began to assess the forces involved in the complex negotiations between religious minority communities and dominant secular societies. ![]() That community – the Inter-varsity Christian Fellowship at McMaster University – is clearly far removed from ISIS and Al-Qaeda, but all of these groups share the need to address, and perhaps to fix or fight, a world in which they feel trapped, and a world they often believe to be bent on their humiliation. He has been involved in studying the ways religious fundamentalists survive, and sometimes thrive, within secular societies since the mid-1990s, when he conducted fieldwork among a group of Protestant evangelicals at a secular campus in Ontario. Dr Paul Bramadat is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. ![]()
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