Sacred Violence [electronic resource] : Political Religion in a Secular Age /
Jones, David Martin.author.
Smith, M. L. R.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 History Restarted: Jihadist Terror and Liberal Democracy; 2 The Politics of Homeland Insecurity: The Cybercaliphate and the Unbearable Lightness of Being British; 3 The Commentariat and Discourse Failure: Language and Atrocity in Cool Britannia; 4 Counterinsurgency (COIN): The Post-9/11 Military Revolution and Its Consequences; 5 Non-Western Terror and Counterinsurgency: The Case of Jemaah Islamiyah; 6 Beyond Belief: Islamist Strategic Thinking and International Relations Theory
7 Political Fiction and Jihad: The Novel Response to 9/118 Conclusion: Terror, the Polis and Political Religion; Notes; Bibliography - Articles; Bibliography - Books; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Religion and sociology.
Terrorism.
International relations.
Islam.
Political science.
Social Aspects of Religion.
Terrorism and Political Violence.
International Relations.
Religion and Society.
Islam.
Political Science.