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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 / Ariel Glucklich.
- Author
- Glucklich, Ariel.
- Publication
- New York : HarperOne, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- 345 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-328) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-65
- ISBN
- 0061430811
- 9780061430817
- LCCN
- 2009005174
- OCLC
- 302099939
- Author
- Glucklich, Ariel.
- Title
- Dying for heaven : holy pleasure and suicide bombers--why the best qualities of religion are also its most dangerous / Ariel Glucklich.
- Imprint
- New York : HarperOne, c2009.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-328) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-65