Terror in the Mind of God The Global Rise of Religious Violence

Name: Terror in the Mind of God The Global Rise of Religious Violence
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ISBN: 9780520240117

ISBN-10: 0520240111

ISBN-13: 9780520240117

Edition: 3rd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Mark Juergensmeyer

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Completely revised and updated, this new edition of Terror in the Mind of God incorporates the events of September 11, 2001 into Mark Juergensmeyer's landmark study of religious terrorism. Juergensmeyer explores the 1993 World Trade Center explosion, Hamas suicide bombings, the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack, and the killing of abortion clinic doctors in the United States. His personal interviews with 1993 World Trade Center bomber Mahmud Abouhalima, Christian Right activist Mike Bray, Hamas leaders Sheik Yassin and Abdul Azis Rantisi, and Sikh political leader Simranjit Singh Mann, among others, take us into the mindset of those who perpetrate and support violence in the name of religion.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 9.00" wide x 6.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface to the Revised Edition


Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



Terror and God


The Meaning of Religious Terrorism


Seeing Inside Cultures of Violence


Cultures of Violence



Soldiers for Christ


Mike Bray and Abortion Clinic Bombings


Theological Justifications


Eric Robert Rudolph and Timothy McVeigh


Catholics and Protestants in Belfast



Zion Betrayed


Yoel Lerner and the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin


Baruch Goldstein's Attack at the Tomb of the Patriarchs


Meir Kahane and Jewish Justifications for Violence



Islam's "Neglected Duty"


Mahmud Abouhalima and the World Trade Center Bombing


Abdul Aziz Rantisi and Hamas Suicide Missions


Modern Islamic Justifications for Violence



The Sword of Sikhism


Simranjit Singh Mann and India's Assassinations


Sikh and Hindu Justifications for Violence



Armageddon in a Tokyo Subway


Takeshi Nakamura and the Aum Shinrikyo Assault


Can Buddhist Violence Be Justified?


The Logic of Religious Violence



Theater of Terror


Performance Violence


Setting the Stage


A Time to Kill


Reaching the Audience



Cosmic War


Grand Scenarios


Symbolic War


When Symbols Become Deadly



Martyrs and Demons


Sacrificial Victims


The Invention of Enemies


America as Enemy


Satanization and the Stages of Empowerment



Warriors' Power


Empowering Marginal Men


Why Guys Throw Bombs


Fighting for the Rule of God



The Mind of God


Empowering Religion


Postmodern Terror


Destroying Violence


Notes


Interviews and Correspondence


Bibliography


Index