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Tagged: apocalypse

  • Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
    • in Radicalisation · Regions · Research · Terms and Definitions · World

    Confronting Apocalyptic Terrorism: Lessons from France and Japan

    Journal abstract Terrorists who believe they have a role to play in bringing about the apocalypse pose a serious threat to countries around the world. In their quest to eradicate[…]

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    Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
    • in Radicalisation · Regions · Research · World

    Confronting Apocalyptic Terrorism: Lessons from France and Japan

    Journal abstract Terrorists who believe they have a role to play in bringing about the apocalypse pose a serious threat to countries around the world. In their quest to eradicate[…]

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    • in Ideologies · Research

    The bitter end: apocalypse and conspiracy in white nationalist responses to the Islamic State attacks in Paris

    Journal abstract Wilson’s article examines how apocalyptic thinking converges with the use of conspiracy theory in white nationalist world-views at a time of crisis. Apocalyptic thinking is, typically, a religious[…]

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    cambridge companion religion terrorism
    • in Ideologies · Research

    Girard on Apocalypse and Terrorism

    Chapter summary Although highly disputed, the French-American philosophical anthropologist René Girard’s theory of violence and archaic religion has had a major impact on the current theoretical discussion. From the 1960s[…]

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  • cambridge companion religion terrorism
    • in Ideologies · Research

    The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism

    Publisher’s description 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,[…]

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    • in Groups · Ideologies · Regions · Research · World

    ISIS’s Will to Apocalypse

    Journal abstract Close observers of ISIS have recognized the group’s apocalyptic ideology, but this apocalyptic dimension has not been treated with sufficient theoretical depth or historical understanding. Theoretically, analysts have[…]

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  • Perspectives on Terrorism
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    The metronome of apocalyptic time: Social media as carrier wave for millenarian contagion

    Journal abstract The Islamic State uses social media to activate a sense of “apocalyptic time” among its supporters online. Key elements of this campaign include instilling a sense of temporal[…]

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    • in Ideologies · Research

    Rapture or risk: signs of the end or symptoms of world risk society?

    Journal abstract In this article, I argue that elements of contemporary fundamentalist Christian apocalyptic discourse are not only influenced by, but are a product of the rhetoric and fascination with[…]

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    • in Causes of radicalisation · Ideologies · Research

    Three Theories of Religious Activism and Violence: Social Movements, Fundamentalists, and Apocalyptic Warriors

    Journal abstract Numerous scholars have investigated religiously motivated violence, particularly in the wake of September 11, including discussions on the role of modernity in triggering religious violence, the increasing presence[…]

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    • in Groups · Ideologies · Regions · Research · World

    Destroying the world to save It : Aum Shinrikyō, apocalyptic violence and the new global terrorism

    Lifton looks at Aum Shinrikyō, its orientations, members and activities and seeks to identify in particular the characteristics and psychological orientation of its guru, Asahara Shoko.

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