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Dying for heaven : holy pleasure and suicide bombers--why the best qualities of religion are also its most dangerous
Title:
Dying for heaven : holy pleasure and suicide bombers--why the best qualities of religion are also its most dangerous
Author:
Glucklich, Ariel.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : HarperOne, [2009]

©2009
Physical Description:
345 pages : music ; 24 cm
Summary:
A scholar and advisor to the Pentagon explains the religious motivations of terrorists, and tells why suicide missions may be rational and pleasurable for them.
Language:
English
Contents:
Religious self-destructiveness and nuclear deterrence -- The mysteries of pleasure -- The varieties of religious pleasure -- The school for happiness -- Disgust and desire: why we sacrifice for the group -- God's love and the Prozac effect -- Spiritual love and the seeds of annihilation -- The paradise paradox: the misery of heaven-addicts -- The martyr's theater.
ISBN:
9780061430817
Format :
Book