Jones / Rainsborough / Smith Sacred Violence

Political Religion in a Secular Age
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-32806-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Rethinking Political Violence

Sacred Violence and Religious Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to bring about a purer world. In particular, the book examines Islamism and the western secular, liberal democratic responses to it.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, D.

Rainsborough, M.

Smith, M.L.R

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. History Restarted 2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being British 3. The Commentariat and Discourse Failure 4. Counter insurgency (COIN): The Military Revolution that Failed 5. Non–western terror and counter-insurgency: the case of Jemaah Islamiah 6. Beyond Belief: Islamist Strategic Thinking and International Relations Theory 7. Political Fiction and Jihad – The Novel Response to 9/11 Conclusion Terror the Polis and Political Religion

Über Autor(innen)

David Martin Jones is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Queensland, Australia. M.L.R. Smith is Professor of Strategic Studies, King's College London, UK.