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Religious Fundamentalism and Social Identity is unique in applying social identity theory to fundamentalism, and rare in that it provides psychological (in addition to sociological) analyses of the phenomenon. It is a valuable resource for courses in social psychology which seek to demonstrate the applicability of social psychological theory to the real world.
Peter Herriot
Peter Herriot has spent most of his working life as an academic, as a visiting professor at the University of Surrey and at the Open University Business School, concluding his career with a short period of consultancy. His subject area was organizational psychology, where he specialised in personnel selection, career development, and the employment relationship. Subsequent to retirement, he has sought to apply social and organizational psychology to the understanding of religious fundamentalism.