Sacred fury
Subtitle: understanding religious violence
By: Charles Selengut
Publisher: Altamira Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Violence -- Religious aspects
Description: This book helps us understand one of the most disturbing and perplexing phenomena of modern life: the emergence of religious violence as a major factor in world affairs. [In the book, the author] surveys the literature in the filed and rightly focuses on the idea of sacred war as religion's potent contribution to charged political encounters. He brings psychological perspectives to bear in helping us understand how marginalized people - adopting religious images of divine conquest - engage in terrorism and other acts of public violence out of a sense of spiritual mission.-Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-256) and index
Table of contents: title: Fighting for God : scriptural obligations and holy wars; title: Psychological perspectives; title: Apocalyptic violence; title: Civilizational clashes, culture wars, and religious violence; title: Religious suffering, martyrdom, and sexual violence; title: Conclusion : toward a holistic approach to religious violence