May I suggest:

Religious Fanaticism and Poly-behavioral Addiction

By Dr. James Slobodzien

http://www.ecauldron.net/articles/archives/2006/05/entry_51.php

Please check out the attached ones.

Article A study of religious fanaticism,

Article On Religious Fanaticism A Look at Transpersonal Identity Disorder

Some suggestions to get you started, from PsycInfo

Religion und Fanatismus. / Religion and fanaticism.

By Britton, Ronald

Psyche: Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen, Vol 63(9-10), Sep-Oct 2009, 907-924.

It is not what is believed but how it is believed that makes conviction dangerous. Absolutism whether it is in religion, metaphysics or politics treats a belief system as the final solution. It is unlike science in this respect which regards the state of knowledge as always incomplete and not as ultimate. The safeguard in religion and philosophy is scepticism so that those who practice either do so with a sceptical inner eye. To achieve sceptical belief as opposed to absolutism requires inner objectivity alongside subjectivity. It needs a third position and triangular space so that the believer can see himself in an act of belief rather than being possessed of knowledge. Initially in our development we treat beliefs as facts and it is only with emancipation from an inner certainty that we can see our beliefs as requiring reality testing. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

Review of Bad faith: The danger of religious extremism and Faith-based radicalism: Christianity, Islam and Judaism between constructive activism and destructive fanaticism.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2008.00693.x

By Cherribi, Sam

Political Psychology, Vol 30(2), Apr 2009, 319-323.

Reviews the books, Bad faith: The danger of religious extremism by Neil J. Kressel (see record 2007-18823-000) and Faith-based radicalism: Christianity, Islam and Judaism between constructive activism and destructive fanaticism edited by Christine Timmerman, Dirk Hutsebaut, Sara Mels, Walter Nonneman, and Walter Van Herk (2007). The author of the first book offers up a broad look at fundamentalism in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. A lack of original research (there is none by the author) beggars the book in a way that is particularly noticeable given a persistent weakness in the text, a distracting lack of full thought, the kind of short shrift that doesn’t allow an idea to be finished enough to provide transitions between, and contexts for, citations of secondary data references. The second book promises much in its introduction; it refers to Mark Juergensmeyer’s concept of the “cosmic warrior.” Second book addresses the roots of radicalism in sacred texts. Using a rabbinic approach shaped by a study of Talmudic law, Brawer seeks to deconstruct sacred texts in order to excise the fibers of violence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)

Review of Fanaticism in psychoanalysis: Upheavals in the institutions.

By Mizen, Richard

The Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol 59(3), Jun 2014, 457-459.

Reviews the book, Fanaticism in Psychoanalysis: Upheavals in the Institutions by Manuela Utrilla Robles (see record 2013-26876-000).This book by the Spanish psychoanalyst Manuela Utrilla Robles is a rare and honourable, systematic attempt to understand in detail some of the processes that can distort the analytic project and its ostensible commitment to psychological and emotional development, the toleration and valuing of separateness and difference and to truth and integrity rather than defensive illusion and dissembling. Defining fanaticism she considers it to have five particular characteristics: dogmatism; lack of a critical spirit; ‘Manichaeism’ - by which she means the kind of dualism in which no subtleties, nuances or differences may be allowed; hatred of difference and finally eagerness to impose one’s own beliefs. On balance then, the reviewer feels that this book has much in it of value but is flawed or at least limited, in a number of ways, not least in illustrating the limits of analytic understanding. But I hope that this will not be understood as a major criticism because what it does do, in its systematic, imaginative and thoughtful treatment of its subject, is establish a sound starting point and directions for further work by other analysts brave enough to take up the task. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved)

Working with infantile fanaticism syndrome.

By Walewska, Katarzyna

Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Vol 14(3), Sep 2012, 59-66.

The author introduces the phenomenon of infantile fanaticism through a clinical illustration of a particular group of adult patients met in contemporary psychoanalytic practice—patients that present psychotisation and the strong need for a narcissistic-fanatic object relation. The author bases her work on the theories of Freud, Kohut, Klein, Segal, Bion, Racamier, Abensour, Rosenfeld and others. She refers equally to the findings of Peter Canzler, a German psychoanalyst, who described the psychological mechanism of the formation and functioning of fanaticism with reference to research on fascism. Additionally, she proposes her own theoretical thesis based on her psychoanalytical work. The author alternates between the terms "child" and "infantile", where if mentioned is an adult "syndrome", the preference is "infantile", while "childish" (in line with Freudian tradition) is used to describe a "desire". (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)

Pluralism: An antidote for fanaticism, the delusion of our age.

By Howard, George S.; Christopherson, Cody D.

Journal of Mind and Behavior, Vol 30(3), 2009, 139-148.

William James's pluralism, when combined with his pragmatism and radical empiricism, is a complete and coherent philosophy of life. James provides an antidote to the excesses of both the extreme realist/objectivist and the extreme constructivist/relativist camps. In this paper, we demonstrate how this is so in a discussion of epistemology and ontology including several extended examples. These examples demonstrate the inescapability of context and background assumptions and the advantages of a pluralist worldview. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)