The Cambridge Companion To Religion And Terrorism

Does religion cause terrorism? This volume presents a range of theories and case studies that address this important issue.

Why is religion intertwined with war and violence? These chapters offer nuanced discussions of the key histories and themes.

This volume addresses the key features of new religions, such as Scientology, the Moonies and Jihadist movements, from a systematic, comparative perspective.

An accessible and wide-ranging survey of modern Arab culture covering political, intellectual and social aspects.

In this 2007 volume, eighteen of the world's leading scholars present original essays on various aspects of atheism: its history, both ancient and modern, defense and implications. The topic is examined in terms of its implications for a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, religion, feminism, postmodernism, sociology and psychology. In its defense, both classical and contemporary theistic arguments are criticized, and, the argument from evil, and impossibility arguments, along with a non religious basis for morality are defended. These essays give a broad understanding of atheism and a lucid introduction to this controversial topic.

This Element explores the disputed relationship between Islam and suicide attacks. Drawing from primary source material as well as existing scholarship from fields such as terrorism studies and religious studies, it argues that Islam as a generic category is not an explanatory factor in suicide attacks. Rather, it claims that we need to study how organisations and individuals in their particular contexts draw tools such as Islamic martyrdom traditions, ritual practices and perceptions on honour and purity from their cultural repertoire to shape, justify and give meaning to the bloodshed.

Captures the essence of the multi-layered subject of human rights law in a way that is authoritative, critical and scholarly.

Explores recent high profile cases of new religious movements involved in violence.