An edition of Talking to the enemy
(2010)
Talking to the enemy
faith, brotherhood, and the (un)making of terrorists
1st ed.
by Scott Atran
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Looks at the root causes of terrorism; discusses the psychological, social, and religious aspects of terrorism; and offers practical solutions on ways to identify and prevent future terrorists.
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Talking to the enemy: faith, brotherhood, and the (un)making of terrorists
2010, Ecco Press
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0061344907 9780061344909
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Table of Contents
I. The cause. 1. Sulawesi : an anthropologist at work
2. To be human : what is it?
3. The Moors of Mezuak
II. The religious rise of civilizations. 4. Creation of the western world
5. Submission : Islam
6. The tides of terror
7. A parallel universe : the 9/11 Hamburg group and the three waves of jihad
III. Whither Al Qaeda? Bali and Madrid. 8. Farhin's way
9. The road to Bali : "For all you Christian infidels!"
10. The JI social club
11. The great train bombing : Madrid, March 11, 2004
12. Looking for Al Qaeda
13. The ordinariness of terror
IV. The wild east. 14. Prying into Pakistan
15. A question of honor : why the Taliban fight and what to do about it
16. The terror scare : exaggerating threats at home and abroad
V. War parties : groups, God, and glory. 17. All in the family : imagined kin, friendship, and teamwork
18. Blood sport : war makes men men
19. Beyond all reason : the Clausewitz delusion
VI. "The mother of all problems" : Palestine, the world's symbolic knot. 20. Martyrdom 101
21. Words to end wars : the science of the sacred
VII. The divine dream and the collapse of cultures. 22. Bad faith : the new atheist salvation
23. Human rites : natural origins and evolution of religion
24. Our religious world
Epilogue : Abe's answer : the question of politics.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-533) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-533) and index.
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