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Terror in the mind of God : the global rise of religious violence
Title:
Terror in the mind of God : the global rise of religious violence
Author:
Juergensmeyer, Mark.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]

©2000
Physical Description:
xv, 316 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Mike Bray and abortion clinic bombings -- Theological justifications -- Eric Robert Rudolph and Timothy McVeigh -- Catholics and Protestants in Belfast -- Yoel Lerner and the assassinatin of Yitzhak Rabin -- Baruch Goldstein's attack at the Tomb of the Patriarchs -- Meir Kahane and Jewish justifications for violence -- Mahmud Abouhalima and the World Trade Center bombing -- Abdul Aziz Rantisi and Hamas suicide missions -- Modern Islamic justifications for violence -- Simranjit Singh Mann and India's assassinations -- Sikh and Hindu justifications for violence -- Takeshi Nakamura and the Aum Shinrikyo assault -- Can Buddhist violence be justified?
ISBN:
9780520223011
Format :
Book