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The Cambridge companion to religion and terrorism / edited by James Lewis, University of Tromsø

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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Additional Creators
Lewis, James, 1949-
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Does Religion Cause Terrorism? / Mark Juergensmeyer -- 2.Religion, Violence, Nonsense, and Power / William T. Cavanaugh -- 3.Discounting Religion in the Explanation of Homegrown Terrorism: A Critique / Lorne L. Dawson -- 4.Religion, Radicalization and the Causes of Terrorism / David Miller -- 5.The Role of the Devoted Actor in War, Revolution, and Terrorism / Scott Atran -- 6.Girard on Apocalypse and Terrorism / Espen Dahl -- 7.Rational Choice and Religious Terrorism: Its Bases, Applications, and Future Directions / Stephen Nemeth -- 8.Terror as Sacrificial Ritual? A Discussion of (Neo-)Durkheimian Approaches to Suicide Bombing / Lorenz Graitl -- 9.Imitations of Terror: Applying a Retro Style of Analysis to the Religion-Terrorism Nexus / Tames R. Lewis -- 10.The LTTE: A Nonreligious, Political, Martial Movement for Establishing the Right of Self-Determination of Ilattamils / Peter Schalk -- 11.The Role of Religion in al-Qaeda's Violence / Pieter Nanninga -- 12.Meanings of Savagery: Terror, Religion and the Islamic State / Pieter Nanninga -- 13.Where's Charlie? The Discourse of Religious Violence in France Post-7/1/2015 / Per-Erik Nilsson -- 14.Understanding the Threat of the Islamic State in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan / Meerim Aitkulova -- 15.Terror and the Screen: Keeping the Relationship of Good and Bad Virtual / Christopher Hartney -- 16.Understanding Falun Gong's Martyrdom Strategy as Spiritual Terrorism / Nicole S. D'Amico.
Summary
There is currently much discussion regarding the causes of terrorist acts, as well as the connection between terrorism and religion. Terrorism is attributed either to religious 'fanaticism' or, alternately, to political and economic factors, with religion more or less dismissed as a secondary factor. The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism examines this complex relationship between religion and terrorism phenomenon through a collection of essays freshly written for this volume. Bringing varying approaches, from the theoretical to the empirical, to the topic, the Companion includes an array of subjects, such as radicalization, suicide bombing, and rational choice, as well as specific case studies. The result is a richly textured collection that prompts readers to critically consider the cluster of phenomena that we have come to refer to as 'terrorism,' and terrorism's relationship with the similarly problematic set of phenomena that we call 'religion.'
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ISBN
9781316492536 (ebook)
9781107140141 (hardback)
9781316505625 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).
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