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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'A devastating exposé of how progressive Utopian ideologies have turned international critical theory into a source of legitimacy for enemies of Western values and in particular - violent Islam.' - Ruth Dudley Edwards, Journalist, UK
'This is an erudite, incisive and combative book. The two authors take on the Big Question of how best to understand the origins of religiously justified terror as basis for effective response. They believe that that this is widely and systematically misunderstood. Their argument indicts a pernicious thicket of intertwined errors: the euphemisms of mainstream political discourse, the compulsive utopian anti-occidentalism of 'critical scholarship ', the evasions of Islamist apologists, and even the cultural despair of post 9/11 Anglophone novelists [...] Sacred Violence is deliberately provocative. The responses of those who will most dislike it should be instructive.' - Paul Schulte, Honorary Professor, Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security, Birmingham University, UK,and Non-Resident Senior Associate of the Nuclear Policy Programme of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
M.L.R. Smith is Professor of Strategic Studies, King's College London, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sacred Violence
Book Subtitle: Political Religion in a Secular Age
Authors: David Martin Jones, M. L. R. Smith
Series Title: Rethinking Political Violence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137328069
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Intern. Relations & Development Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-32807-6Published: 27 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46033-5Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-32806-9Published: 05 August 2014
Series ISSN: 2752-8588
Series E-ISSN: 2752-8596
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 270
Topics: Social Aspects of Religion, Terrorism and Political Violence, International Relations, Religion and Society, Islam, Political Science