Sacred violence
Subtitle: political religion in a secular age
By: David Martin Jones, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Queensland, Australia and M.L.R. Smith, Professor of Strategic Theory, King's College London, UK
Contributors: Smith, M. L. R. (Michael Lawrence Rowan), 1963-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781137328076
Subjects: Terrorism; History; Jihad; Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-259) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: History restarted : jihadist terror and liberal democracy; title: The politics of homeland security : the cybercaliphate and the unbearable lightness of being British; title: The commentariat and discourse failure : language and atrocity in cool Britannia; title: Counter insurgency (Coin) : the revolution in military affairs and its consequences; title: Non-western terror and counter insurgency : the case of Jemaah Islamiah; title: Beyond belief : Islamist strategic thinking and international relations theory; title: Political fiction and jihad : the novel response to 9/11; title: Conclusion : terror, the polis and political religion.