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Tagged: violence-and-religion

  • cambridge companion religion terrorism
    • in Ideologies · Research

    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[…]

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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 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[…]

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    cambridge companion religion terrorism
    • in Ideologies · Research

    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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  • cambridge companion religion terrorism
    • in Ideologies · Research

    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[…]

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    cambridge companion religion terrorism
    • in Ideologies · Research

    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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  • cambridge companion religion terrorism
    • in Ideologies · Research

    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[…]

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    Jihad and Death The Global Appeal of Islamic State
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    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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    • in Ideologies · Regions · Research · World

    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[…]

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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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