On Suicide Bombing

Name: On Suicide Bombing
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ISBN: 9780231141529

ISBN-10: 0231141521

ISBN-13: 9780231141529

Edition: 2007

Authors: Talal Asad

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Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"& mdash;a conceptual leap that struck Asad as problematic. Is there a "religiously-motivated terrorism?" If so, how does it differ from other cruelties? What makes its motivation "religious"? Where does it stand in relation to other forms of collective violence? Drawing on his extensive scholarship in the study of secular and religious traditions as well as his understanding of social, political, and anthropological theory…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 5/11/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.85" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Talal Asad is a professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the author of Formations of the Secularand Genealogies of Religion.




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