Talking to the enemy : violent extremism, sacred values, and what it means to be human
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Format : | Book |
Language : | anglais |
Title statement : | Talking to the enemy : violent extremism, sacred values, and what it means to be human / Scott Atran |
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London :
Penguin
, 2011, cop. 2010 |
Physical Description : | 1 vol. (XVI-558 p.) |
Content : | I. The cause. 1. Sulawesi : an anthropologist at work. 2. To be human : what is it?. 3. The Moors of Mezuak. II. The religious rise of civilizations. 4. Creation of the western world. 5. Submission : Islam. 6. The tides of terror. 7. A parallel universe : the 9/11 Hamburg group and the three waves of jihad. III. Whither Al Qaeda? Bali and Madrid. 8. Farhin's way. 9. The road to Bali : "For all you Christian infidels!". 10. The JI social club. 11. The great train bombing : Madrid, March 11, 2004. 12. Looking for Al Qaeda. 13. The ordinariness of terror. IV. The wild east. 14. Prying into Pakistan. 15. A question of honor : why the Taliban fight and what to do about it. 16. The terror scare : exaggerating threats at home and abroad. V. War parties : groups, God, and glory. 17. All in the family : imagined kin, friendship, and teamwork. 18. Blood sport : war makes men men. 19. Beyond all reason : the Clausewitz delusion. VI. "The mother of all problems" : Palestine, the world's symbolic knot. 20. Martyrdom 101. 21. Words to end wars : the science of the sacred. VII. The divine dream and the collapse of cultures. 22. Bad faith : the new atheist salvation. 23. Human rites : natural origins and evolution of religion. 24. Our religious world. Epilogue : Abe's answer : the question of politics |
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Bibliography : | Réf. bibliogr. p. 491-533. Index |
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ISBN : | 978-0-241-95176-7 0-241-95176-3 |