Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, 3rd Edition (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society, Vol. 13) |
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| Title: | Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, 3rd Edition (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society, Vol. 13) |
| Author: | Mark Juergensmeyer |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 01 September, 2003 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0520240111 / 9780520240117 |
| List Price: | $19.95 |
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Completely revised and updated, this new edition of Terror in the Mind of God incorporates the events of September 11, 2001 into Mark Juergensmeyer's landmark study of religious terrorism. Juergensmeyer explores the 1993 World Trade Center explosion, Hamas suicide bombings, the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack, and the killing of abortion clinic doctors in the United States. His personal interviews with 1993 World Trade Center bomber Mahmud Abouhalima, Christian Right activist Mike Bray, Hamas leaders Sheik Yassin and Abdul Azis Rantisi, and Sikh political leader Simranjit Singh Mann, among others, take us into the mindset of those who perpetrate and support violence in the name of religion.
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• Religion And Violence Are Not Linked Always
20 December, 2006
The thesis of this book is that religion and violence are always linked and that all religions are the same in having a violent strain and that all religions have violence in them naturally because religion is violent.
This is blatently and historically untrue. In attempting, like so many works, to not single out Islam as violent this book wants the reader to beleive that Buddhism, Sikhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism and all religions are equally violent and a study of each reveals a strain of hate. Timothy Mcveigh is the Christian, the Sikh Kalistan fighters are the Sikhs, The Tamils are the Hindus, Osama is the Muslims, The strange terror cell in Japan is the Buddhist. This is easy. Rather tahn doing a comprehensive study this book found one murderer from each religion that led a sect and said "see this religion has a strain of violence". However Timothy Mcveigh was one man as were the Buddhist extremists in Japan. The Tamils are not religious, there ware is based on ethnicity. Where are the Jewish terrorists, well there must be Baruch Goldstien and recall those Jewish Zealots 2000 years ago.
This is sheer lunacy. Different religions did indeed engage is certain levels of violence throughout history. THat is true. THere are also different forms of religions and religions change. Religions that were once violent or state controlled like Christianity and Buddhism, have become peaceful. Religions like Sikhism are naturally warrior based religions, but not neccesarily violent. Hinduism has never manifested itself violently, and Judaism hasnt been violent since the time of the revolt and that was a national revolt. This is just a gigantic scam. Islam has violent passages in the Koran. But this doesnt mean Bin Laden is timothy Mcveigh.
It is also not true that religion is 'more' violent than secular societies. Hitler and Stalin killed more people in 5 years than any religion has ever done. If anything religion may work as a hand holding violence back but helping unify it when it takes place.
Seth J. Frantzman
- Amazon Customer Review
• Survey Of Religious Terrorism
28 February, 2006
Excellent book covering all the major religions and their terrorists. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a scholarly survey or someone looking to make more sense of the world.
Many of the cases explored are chilling in their cold bloodedness, but the author makes all of them eminently understandable.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Juergensmeyer Has Done His Research!
12 October, 2005
This book is being used in a Terrorism seminar class that I am taking and for good reason. Juergensmeyer does not rely wholly on second hand information but has actually visited and spoken with those accused and some even convicted of terror and gives a perspective that only a first hand knowledge would provide. This is an excellent insight into the minds of true idealists with a bent on death and destruction.
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• Disturbing
28 February, 2008
Although history is replete with Crusades, Jihads, Holy Wars, etc. it still stymies me how, otherwise intelligent people can slaughter each other and bring chaos to thousands, over religion. Even if any of it were true, it would seem sane to avoid it simply because it is so divisive, violent and irrational.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Important Perspectives
16 January, 2010
I came to this book with negative expectations but ended up quite impressed with it. (I give it 4 stars not for any problems, but because I try to reserve 5 stars for my very favorites.) The case studies are quite good and so is most of the discussion on roots and commonalities of religious terrorism. Though some of the main arguments seem rather speculative (such as the underlying one that religion exists largely to channel violence through symbolism: the Christian Eucharist is a transformed violent act), there is plenty of material for thought and directions for future analysis.
One limitation is that the author does not seem to make a clear distinction between terrorism and violence in general. For example, the Muslim conquests, Crusades, religious riots in Nigeria where I live, and recent Taliban movements don't qualify as terrorism, but were religiously-related violence. Partly as a result of this, the author largely considers the extreme ends of the different religious movements, but nowhere discusses whether the mainstream of Buddhism, for example, is as congenial toward warfare as Islam or Christianity, and why there may be differences. Instead, he treats all religions as more-or-less equal--basically good but prone to misuse.
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