Publications in German

The research projects mainly publish in German language. Please find all publications here.

How can research on topics surrounding radicalization, extremism, and terrorism be safe and socially sustainable?

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08. Februar 2024

Research on extremism and related phenomena such as radicalization or terrorism is emotionally demanding and can even become dangerous, in part because it frequently means engaging with intense, and at times violent, societal conflict.

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Publications

  • Müssig, Stephanie/Okrug, Inken (2025): Labour Market Discrimination of Muslims and Political Trust in Germany: Experimental Evidence on Muslim and Non-Muslim Responses. In: Journal of Muslims in Europe, 14(2), 160–185. [Download]
    Project: Wechselwirkungen
  • Aydinli, Fatma/Badawia, Tarek (2025): Trust as a Social Resource: on the Dynamics of Trust in the Institutionalization Process of Islamic Religious Education at State Schools in Germany. In: Journal of Muslims in Europe, 14(2), 141–159. [Download]
    Project: Wechselwirkungen
  • Aslan, Serdar (2025): Concepts of Trust in Muslim Friday Sermons in Germany – an Analysis Based on the Collections of the DİTİB and IGMG. In: Journal of Muslims in Europe, 14(2), 121–140. [Download]
    Project: Wechselwirkungen
  • Bokler, Evelyn (2025): The impact of religion in the MENA-Region. In: Re:Think. Academy-Magazine (03)2025, S. 58–59.
    Project: Ressentiment
  • Sponholz, Liriam/Meuth, Anna-Maria/Weiberg, Mirjam/Zajak, Sabrina/Berger, Stefan (2025): Radicalising the Mainstream in Western Europe. The Far Right and Narratives of Islam in Contemporary and Historical Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. [Download]
    Project: RaMi
  • Aydinli, Fatma/Müssig, Stephanie (2025): Muslims in Germany and Trust in Times of Crisis – Introduction to the Special Issue. In: Journal of Muslims in Europe, 14(2), 115–120. [Download]
    Project: Wechselwirkungen
  • Aydinli, Fatma (2025): Insights into the Field Diary of the Research Project ‘Islamic Religious Education: a Medium for Social Integration or Islamist Radicalization?’. In: Journal of Muslims in Europe, 14(2), 227–239. [Download]
    Project: Wechselwirkungen
  • Müssig, Stephanie/Weinmann, Katharina (2025): Muslims’ Experiences with Discrimination, Political Support, and Future Expectations. In: Journal of Muslims in Europe, 14(2), 186–207. [Download]
    Project: Wechselwirkungen
  • Demmrich, Sarah/Şenel, Abdulkerim (2025): Entitativity as a moderator? A brief report unraveling the relations between deprivation, fundamentalism, and radicalization. In: Current Psychology [Download]
    Project: Ressentiment
  • Sponholz, Liriam/Meuth, Anna-Maria (2025) How do events shape the media agenda on Islam and Muslims in Western Europe? An analysis of news events in Germany, the UK and France (2000–2020). In: Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 11, 1-12. [Download]
    Project: RaMi
  • Kurtenbach, Sebastian/Küchler, Armin Küchler/Zick, Andreas (2025): Radicalizing spaces: Neighbourhood effects on susceptibility to radicalization. In: European Journal of Criminology. [Download]
    Project: RadiRa
  • Hegner, Sabrina/Schilling, Leoni/Durmaz, Elif/Hirschfeld, Gerrit (2025): You Say Your Best When You Say at All: Crisis Communication Strategies by Muslim Organizations in the Aftermath of Islamist Terrorism. In: European Journal of Social Psychology, 1-17. [Download]
    Project: OKAI
  • Demmrich, Sarah/Hanel, Paul (2025): Religious fundamentalism and radicalization: how nationalist-Islamist party politics polarizes Turkey—and how polarization can be reduced. In: Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik, 9 (1), 1–21. [Download]
    Project: Ressentiment
  • Schlegel, Linda/Wiegold, Lars/Winkler, Constantin, Junk, Julian (2025): Exploring the digital extremist ecosystem: a preliminary analysis of hateful posts on Mod DB. In: Frontiers in Psychology 15. [Download]
    Project: KURI
  • Durmaz, Elif/Hegner, Sabrina/Schilling, Leoni/Hirschfeld, Gerrit (2024): Impact of Crisis Communication Strategies by Muslim Organizations in the Aftermath of Islamist Terrorist Attacks: An Experimental Eye Tracking Study. In: Crime & Delinquency. [Download]
    Project: OKAI
  • Kurtenbach, Sebastian/Küchler, Armin/Zick, Andreas (2024): Prevention of neighborhood effects on the susceptibility to radicalization. Results of a comparative study in Germany. In: Urban Affairs Review, 61 (2), 406-442. [Download]
    Project: RadiRa
  • Demmrich, Sarah/Hanel, Paul H. (2024): The Relative Role of Religiosity in Radicalization: How Orthodox and Fundamentalist Religiosity Are Linked to Violence Acceptance. In: Frontiers in Social Psychology, 2. [Download]
    Project: Ressentiment
  • Müssig, Stephanie/Okrug, Inken (2024): Discrimination and Civic Engagement of Immigrants in Western Societies. A Systematic Scoping Review. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 1-47. [Download]
    Project: Wechselwirkungen
  • Williamson, W. Paul/Demmrich, Sarah (2024): An International Review of Empirical Research on the Psychology of Fundamentalism. Leiden: Brill. [Download]
    Project: Ressentiment
  • Fleischmann, Fenella/Şimşek, Müge/Schneider, Verena/Pickel, Gert (2024). How and why does religion matter for the integration of Muslim minorities? Differentiating religiosity from religious orientations among Turkish Muslims in Germany. In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51(5), 1184–1206. [Download]
    Project: RIRA
  • Pollack, Detlef/Müller, Olaf/Demmrich, Sarah (2024): Religious Fundamentalism: A Conceptual and Empirical Study Among Muslims of Turkish Origin in Germany. In: Sociology of Religion, srae035, 1-27. [Download]
    Project: Ressentiment
  • Pollack, Detlef (2024): Religious and Secular in Premodern Islam and Christianity. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 125-153.
    Project: Ressentiment
  • Jensen, Michael/Junk, Julian (2024): The case for establishing a global research meta-database. In: IAPSS REVIEW 1, 26-27. [Download]
    Project: KURI
  • Dennaoui, Youssef (2024): Religious Freedom in the Field of Tension between Populist Anti-Muslim Sentiments and Islamist Radicalisation Tendencies: Sociological Observations Using the Case of Germany. In: Hirschberger, Bernd/Voges, Katja (Hg.): Religious Freedom and Populism. The Appropriation of a Human Right and How to Counter It. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 135-146. [Download]
    Project: Deutungsmacht
  • von Lautz, Yannick/Bösing, Eike/Kart, Mehmet/Margit Stein (2024): Influences of Discrimination and Stigmatization on Secondary and Tertiary Level P/CVE Efforts – Insights from German Practitioners into Countering Islamist Extremism. In: Journal of Deradicalization, 38, 122-164. [Download]
    Project: Distanz
  • Abay Gaspar, Hande/Junk, Julian/Sold, Manjana/Süß, Clara-Auguste (2024): Co-escalation in Contentious Politics and Radicalization. In: PRIF Working Papers, 62, Frankfurt/M. [Download]
    Project: KURI
  • Ahmed, Reem/Klöckner, Mona/Sold, Manjana (2024): How can research on topics surrounding radicalization, extremism, and terrorism be safe and socially sustainable? PRIF-Blog. [Download]
    Project: KURI
  • Demir, Zeynep/Bayad, Aydın/Uysal, Mete Sefa/Düzen, N. Ekrem/Zick, Andreas (2024): Don’t they want to, or can’t they? Political Participation and Engagement by Turkish postmigrant Youth in Germany. In: Politisierung von Jugend. 1st ed. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa Verlag, 204-221.
    Project: RadiRa
  • Bösing, Eike/von Lautz, Yannick/Kart, Mehmet/Stein, Margit (2023): Gender Constructions in the Prevention of and Deradicalization from Islamism in Germany. In: Journal for Deradicalization, 37, 140-172. [Download]
    Project: Distanz
  • Öztürk, Cemal (2023): Revisiting the islam-patriarchy nexus: is religious fundamentalism the central cultural barrier to gender equality?. In: Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik, 7, 173–206. [Download]
  • Pollack, Detlef/Demmrich, Sarah/Müller, Olaf (2023): Editorial—Religious fundamentalism: New theoretical and empirical challenges across religions and cultures. In: Journal for Religion, Society and Politics 7, 1–11. [Download]
    Project: Ressentiment
  • Demmrich, Sarah/Hanel, Paul (2023): When religious fundamentalists feel privileged: Findings from a representative study in contemporary Turkey. In: Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 4. [Download]
    Project: Ressentiment
  • Durmaz, Elif/Hegner, Sabrina/Schilling, Leoni/Hirschfeld, Gerrit (2023): Strategic Communication of Muslim Organizations in the Aftermath of Islamist Terrorist Attacks – a Qualitative Analysis from Germany. In: International Journal of Strategic Communication.
    Project: OKAI
  • Dennaoui, Youssef (2023): Religious Freedom in the Field of Tension between Populist Anti-Muslim Sentiments and Islamist Radicalisation Tendencies. Sociological Observations Using the Case of Germany. In: Hirschberger, Bernd/Voges, Katja (Hg.): Religious Freedom and Populism. The Appropriation of a Human Right and How to Counter It. Bielefeld, 135-146.
    Project: Deutungsmacht
  • Ahmed, Reem (2023): Negotiating Fundamental Rights: Civil Society and the EU Regulation on Addressing the Dissemination of Terrorist Content Online. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. [Download]
    Project: KURI
  • von Lautz, Yannick/Bösing, Eike/Kart, Mehmet/Stein, Margit (2023): Counseling towards the Deradicalization of Islamist Extremists: An Overview of Approaches Based on Two Qualitative Interview Studies with Prevention Practitioners in Germany. In: Journal of Deradicalization, 36, 23-62. [Download]
    Project: Distanz
  • Ezli, Özkan (2023): The Sociability of Narrative: Freedom, Vulnerability, and Mediation in the Intercultural Novel. In: New German Critique 50 (3/150), 51–60. [Download]
    Project: Ressentiment
  • Engelken-Jorgea, Marcos/Forchtner, Bernhard/Özvatan, Özgür (2023): Theorizing exclusionary and inclusionary people-making: from narrative genres to collective learning processes, Journal of Social Theory.
    Project: D:Islam
  • Hess, Fabian M./Börner, Emma: (2023): The ABC of Stereotypes Among Muslims and Non-Muslims in Germany. In: HIKMA, 14 (1), 5-30.
    Project: RIRA
  • Sponholz, Liriam (2023): Counter Speech: Practices of Contradiction on Hate Speech and their Effects. In: Febel, Gisela/Knopf, Kerstin/Nonhoff, Martin (Hg.): Contradiction Studies–Exploring the Field, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 163-181.
    Project: RaMi
  • Sponholz, Liriam (2023): Hate speech. In: Strippel, Christian/Paasch-Colberg, Sünje/Emmer, Martin/Trebbe Joachim (Hg.): Challenges and perspectives of hate speech research, 143-163.
    Project: RaMi
  • Schilling, Leoni/Durmaz, Elif/Hirschfeld, Gerrit/Hegner, Sabrina (2023): How to respond to an Islamist terror attack – An experimental study on crisis response strategies of Muslim associations, International Society of Political Psychology, Montreal.
    Project: OKAI
  • Özvatan, Özgür/Neuhauser, Bastian/Yurdakul, Gökçe (2023): The ‘Arab Clans’ Discourse: Narrating Racialization, Kinship, and Crime in the German Media. In: Social Sciences 12 (2), 104. [Download]
    Project: D:Islam
  • Pickel, Gert/Öztürk, Cemal/Schneider, Verena/Pickel, Susanne/Decker, Oliver (2022): Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Myths, Beliefs, and Democracy-Endangering Consequences. In: Politics and Governance 10 (4), 177-191. [Download]
    Project: RIRA
  • Klackl, Johannes/Stollberg, Janine/Fritsche, Immo/Schindler, Simon/Jonas, Eva (2022): The interplay between individual and collective efforts in the age of global threats. In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 99, (104256). [Download]
    Project: RIRA
  • Brunner, Max Manuel (2022): The European Far Right. A Review of the Recent Literature. In: Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements, 67, 125–136. [Download]
    Project: RaMi
  • Yendell, Alexander/Pickel, Gert (2022): Islamophobia and anti-Muslim feeling in Saxony – theoretical approaches and empirical findings based on population surveys. In: Kalmar, Ivan/Shoshan, Nitzan (ed.). Racism in Contemporary Germany: Islamophobia in East and West. New York: Taylor and Francis.
    Project: RIRA
  • Pickel, Gert/Yendell, Alexander (2022): Religion as Factor of Conflict in Relation to Right-Wing-Extremism, Hostility to Muslims, and Support for the AfD. In: Decker, Oliver/Kiess, Johannes/Brähler, Elmar (ed.). The Dynamics of Right-Wing-Extremism within German Society. Escape into Authoritarianism. London: Routledge, 154-172.
    Project: RIRA
  • Müssig, Stephanie (2022): Factors That Shape Mosque Archives. A Mulit-level Model, Journal of Muslims in Europe, 11 (3), 354-368.
    Project: Wechselwirkungen
  • Özvatan, Özgür (2022): De/legitimising EUrope through the performance of crises: The far-right Alternative for Germany on 'climate hysteria' and 'corona hysteria'. In: Journal of Language and Politics, 21(2), 208-232.
    Project: D:Islam
  • Sponholz, Liriam (2021): Hate Speech and Deliberation: Overcoming the “Words-That-Wound” Trap. In: Pérez-Escolar, Marta/Noguera-Vivo, José Manuel (ed.): Hate speech and polarization in participatory society. Routledge, London, 49-64. [Download]
    Project: RaMi