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Terror in the Name of God

  • Juergensmeyer M
Current History (2001) 100(649) 357-361
DOI: 10.1525/curh.2001.100.649.357
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Abstract

What is striking about the World Trade Center assault and many other recent acts of religious terrorism is that they have no obvious military goal. … They are a kind of perverse performance of power meant to ennoble the perpetrators' views of the world and to draw us into their notions of cosmic war.

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Juergensmeyer, M. (2001). Terror in the Name of God. Current History, 100(649), 357–361. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2001.100.649.357

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