Aspects of Terrorism and Martyrdom : Dying for Good, Dying for God

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Christopher Alan.

Contributor:

Amlot, Richard.

Ansari, Humayun.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and politics.

Terrorism.

World politics.

Martyrdom.

Local Subjects:

Islam and politics.

Terrorism.

World politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Other Title:

Aspects of Terrorism and Martyrdom

Place of Publication:

: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first collection of its kind to provide a comprehensive investigation of terrorism, suicide terrorism and martyrdom in an empirical study that spans continents and cultures from Northern Ireland to Tokyo, Japan, the Middle East, the UK, America, Israel and elsewhere throughout the world.This is a collection of empirical and theoretical studies dealing with terrorism, peace-making, peace keeping and post-traumatic treatment of those injured by violence through acts of terrorism and martyrdom.The research is world-wide in scope and multidisciplinary in content and focus. It illustrates that

Contents:

""ASPECTS OF TERRORISM AND MARTYRDOM: Dying for Good, Dying for God ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Preface ""; ""Chapter 1 - Peace psychology and terrorism research ""; ""Chapter 2 - Intergroup forgiveness and apology ""; ""Chapter 3 - Cultural precursors and psychological consequences of contemporary western responses to acts of terror ""; ""Chapter 4 - Responses, risks and behaviour ""; ""Chapter 5 - Identity, attitudes and conflict experience in Northern Ireland ""; ""Chapter 6 - Giving up the gun? The NLA in Macedonia ""

""Chapter 7 - Martyrdom, monotheism and terrorism """"Chapter 8 - Modern suicide bombing - mental illness, Islamic religious fanaticism, or national struggle? ""; ""Chapter 9 - Muslim terror, religious violence and representations of religion in the Liberal Democratic State ""; ""Chapter 10 - Being Muslim and the war on terror ""; ""Chapter 11 - ""Suicide bombings"" or ""Martyrdom operations""? British Muslim understandings of Jihad and terrorism ""; ""Chapter 12 - Social identity and beliefs about martyrdom and terrorism amongst British Muslims ""

""Chapter 13 - British Chrisitan views of suicide attackers """"Chapter 14 - Resilience in an age of terrorism ""

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7734-0746-4

OCLC:

856870741