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Sacred terror : how faith becomes lethal / Daniel E. Price.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Price, Daniel E., 1962-
- Series:
- Praeger Security International
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism--Religious aspects.
- Terrorism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book places the current wave of religion-based terrorism in a historical perspective, explaining why religion is associated with terrorism, comparing religion-based terrorism to other forms of terrorism, and documenting how religion-based terrorism is a product of powerful political, socioeconomic, and psychological forces.
- Contents:
- How religion facilitates terrorism
- A more complex relationship between religion and terrorism
- Political causes of religion-based terrorism
- Socioeconomic causes of religion-based terrorism
- Psychological causes of religion-based terrorism
- Judaism: religion-based terrorism in Israel
- Christianity: the "troubles" in Northern Ireland and anti-abortion terrorism in the United States
- Islam: Hamas, Hezbollah, and al Qaeda.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798216010531
- 9798216141273
- 9786613861757
- 9781283549301
- 1283549301
- 9780313386398
- 0313386390
- OCLC:
- 811034055
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