The Root of All Evil?, 9781433119293
Hardcover
To adequately answer the question of whether there is a significant causal relationship between organizational religions and terrorism, it is necessary to take a closer and more critical look at the ideologies and practices of both religious practitioners and terrorists. The Root of All Evil? Religi…

The Root of All Evil?

religious perspectives on terrorism

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  • Hardcover

    153 pages

  • Release Date

    21 March 2013

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Summary

There is a great deal of popular belief in the connection between religious extremism and terrorism. There are also numerous statistical analyses that reject that connection. Upon a deeper analysis, however, both of these approaches are oversimplifications. To adequately answer the question of whether there is a significant causal relationship between organizational religions and terrorism, it is necessary to take a closer and more critical look at the ideologies and practices of both religio…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781433119293
ISBN-10:1433119293
Author:Lori J. Underwood
Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:153
Edition:1st
Release Date:21 March 2013
Weight:350g
Dimensions:230mm x 155mm
Series:Terrorism Studies
About The Author

Lori J. Underwood

Lori J. Underwood is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. She holds a PhD from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and is the author of Cosmopolitanism and the Arab Spring: Foundations for the Decline of Terrorism, Terror by Consent: The Modern State and the Breach of the Social Contract, and Kant’s Correspondence Theory of Truth.

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