Rational Choice and Religious Terrorism
Chapter summary While for many, the term “rational choice” signifies a normative judgment about an individual’s choices, it presents a much different reality for scholars. For social scientists, it refers[…]
Tagged: violence-and-religion
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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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The Role of the Devoted Actor in War, Revolution, and Terrorism
Chapter summary “The Devoted Actor” is a theoretical framework developed by a group of scholars and policymakers at ARTIS International – a nonprofit group that uses social science research to[…]
Religion, Radicalization and the Causes of Terrorism
Chapter summary What causes terrorism and how can it be prevented? This is one of the great political questions of our time and over the last decade and a half,[…]
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Discounting Religion in the Explanation of Homegrown Terrorism
Chapter summary Politicians, public officials, and scholars have been scrupulous, for the most part, in denying any direct causal relationship between Islam and terrorism, and more generally between being religious[…]
Religion, Violence, Nonsense, and Power
Chapter summary The recent frequency of Islamist militant attacks in the name of God has added fuel to a long-standing Western notion that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote[…]
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Does Religion Cause Terrorism?
Chapter summary In the wake of any terrorist attack, the immediate questions are who and why – who would do such a thing, and why they would want to do[…]
Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of Islamic State
Publisher’s description How has ISIS been able to muster support far beyond its initial constituency in the Arab world and attract tens of thousands of foreign volunteers, including converts to[…]
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Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West
Publisher’s description The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West In November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert[…]
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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