Sacred terror : how faith becomes lethal / / Daniel E. Price
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| Autore: |
Price Daniel E. <1962->
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| Titolo: |
Sacred terror : how faith becomes lethal / / Daniel E. Price
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| Pubblicazione: | Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , c2012 |
| New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 201/.763325 |
| Soggetto topico: | Terrorism - Religious aspects |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | How religion facilitates terrorism -- A more complex relationship between religion and terrorism -- Political causes of religion-based terrorism -- Socioeconomic causes of religion-based terrorism -- Psychological causes of religion-based terrorism -- Judaism: religion-based terrorism in Israel -- Christianity: the "troubles" in Northern Ireland and anti-abortion terrorism in the United States -- Islam: Hamas, Hezbollah, and al Qaeda. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book places the current wave of religion-based terrorism in a historical perspective, explaining why religion is associated with terrorism, comparing religion-based terrorism to other forms of terrorism, and documenting how religion-based terrorism is a product of powerful political, socioeconomic, and psychological forces. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sacred terror |
| ISBN: | 979-82-16-01053-1 |
| 979-82-16-14127-3 | |
| 1-283-54930-1 | |
| 9786613861757 | |
| 0-313-38639-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822659103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Praeger Security International