Contributor
Juergensmeyer, Mark.
Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.
Descriptionvii, 235 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Forms of treacherous fights, excerpted from the Arthashastra / Kautilya -- Laying plans, excerpted from The Art of war / Sun Tzu -- The Bhagavad Gita in the Mahabharata -- Annals of the sword Taia, exerpted from The Unfettered mind / Soho Takuan -- Deuteronomy 20 (excerpted from the Hebrew Bible) -- Exodus 23 (excerpted from the Hebrew Bible) -- Surah 2: The cow, excerpted from The Qur'an) -- Whether it is always sinful to wage war?, excerpted from Summa Theologica / Thomas Aquinas -- Why the Christian church is not pacifist / Reinhold Niebuhr -- A Time for revolution?, excerpted from A Time to kill / Michael Bray -- The Neglected duty / Abd Al-Salam Faraj -- War and peace, excerpted from The Jewish idea) / Meir Kahane -- Declaring myself the Christ / Shoko Asahara -- Disaster comes to the land of the rising sun / Shoko Asahara -- Last instructions of 9/11 / 9/11 Conspirator -- Elementary forms of the religious life / Emile Durkheim -- Conclusion from Sacrifice: its nature and function / Henri Hubert, Marcel Mauss -- Excerpt from Totem and taboo / Sigmund Freud -- Sacrifice, excerpted from Violence and the sacred / Rene Girard -- Excerpt from Homo Necans / Walter Burkert -- Excerpt from Prey into hunter / Maurice Bloch -- Excerpt from Theory of religion / Georges Bataille -- Excerpt from Critique of Hegel's philosophy of right / Karl Marx -- Sacrifice and descent, excerpted from Throughout your generations forever / Nancy Jay -- Excerpt from The Body in pain / Elaine Scarry -- Excerpt from The Spirit of terrorism / Jean Baudrillard -- The Discreet charm of Indian terrorism, excerpted from The Savage Freud and other essays / Ashis Nandy.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
