New "Weapon of the Weak": Religiosity in Jihadist Propaganda

• In Event: Religion and Politics in the Middle East

Brief Overview

The paper examines how radical Islamic groups, e.g., Al-Qaeda, exploit their religious brand in propaganda to mobilize people. I conduct two large-N empirical studies using Jihadist magazines (an original database) and ISIS tweets, respectively.

Author

• Luwei Ying, Washington University in St Louis