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Research Fellow

Scott Gustafson

Articles

https://scottgustafson.substack.com/

https://acts211.org/author/scott-gustafson/

Gustafson, Scott. “Evangelical Leaders Challenge Christianity Today on Coverage

of Gaza War.” Baptist News Global, December 5, 2024.

https://baptistnews.com/article/evangelical-leaders-challenge-christianity-

today-on-coverage-of-gaza-war/.

Gustafson, Scott. “Digital Sloth in the Online Arena.” Christianity Today, October 30,

2024. https://www.christianitytoday.com/2024/10/internet-radicalization-vice-akrasia-

sloth/.

Gustafson, Scott. “Christians Should Pursue a Just Peace in Gaza” Newsweek,

August 2, 2024. https://www.newsweek.com/christians-should-pursue-just-peace-gaza-opinion-1931712.

Gustafson, Scott. “The Church Is Radicalizing over Gaza.” RNS, July 12, 2024.

https://religionnews.com/2024/07/12/the-church-is-radicalizing-over-gaza/.

“Bearing Witness: What Refugees Teach Us About Suffering” for The Table at

Biola University’s Center for Christian Thought. (Link) January, 2017

“Bring the Fire, Sing in the Smoke: Lessons on Suffering and Forgiveness from

the Church in Sudan” for The Table at Biola University’s Center for Christian

Thought. (link) June, 2016

Book Chapters

Scott Gustafson, Rik Peels, “Alternative Communities: Belonging and Religious

Authority in Deradicalization Processes and Models of Micro Peace in the Levant

in Religious Authority and Conflicts: Analyses and Hypotheses. Edited by Carla

Bagnoli, Vincenzo Pacillo, Routledge, forthcoming.

Scott Gustafson, Julia Ebner, “Looking in the Mirror: The Scholar’s Subjectivity in

the Study of Extremism” in Extreme Beliefs and Behavior volume II Oxford

University Press, forthcoming.

Publications:

Reshaping the Ultimate Other: Levantine Conversion from Extremist Islam to

Christianity through the Lenses of Deradicalization and Missiology, 2023 PhD

dissertation, Vrije Universteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Gustafson, Scott. “Moving Toward the Enemy: A Case for Missiological

Engagement in Counter/Deradicalization.” Journal for Deradicalization, no. 25

(January 2021): 117–57. (link)

Gustafson, Scott. “The Lebanese Evangelical Church’s Response to the Syrian

Crisis: The Shaping of Identity.” International Bulletin of Mission Research 45, no.

1 (January 2021): 51–61. (link)

Gustafson, Scott. “Preventing That Which We Fear: The Church’s Role in

Countering Radicalization.” Evangelical Missions Quarterly 56, no. 3 (July 2020):

18–21. (link)