Research Catalog

Title

Terrorism, jihad, and sacred vengeance / Jerry Piven, Chris Boyd, Henry Lawton (eds.).

Publication

Giessen [Germany] : Psychosozial-Verlag, c2004.

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Description

378 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Psyche and society

Uniform Title

Series "Psyche and society."

Subject

• Psychologische aspecten
• Religieuze aspecten
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
• Terrorism > Psychological aspects
• Terrorism > Religious aspects
• Terrorisme
• Terrorists > Psychology

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

• "Überarbeitete Neuauflage von 'Jihad and Sacred Vengeance' 2002: Writers Club Press"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The World Trade Center disaster and the apocalyptic / Charles B. Strozier -- Evil as love and as liberation / Ruth Stein -- The psychosis (religion) of terrorists and the ecstasy of violence / Jerry Piven -- The psychological make-up of a suicide bomber / Joan Lachkar -- Thoughts for the times on terrorism, war and death / Hans-Jürgen Wirth -- Political domestic violence in Ibrahim's family / Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin -- The mind of Osama Bin Laden / Peter Olsson -- Terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective / Carl Goldberg -- Xenophobia and violence as a family and psychosocial disease / Hans-Jürgen Wirth -- Terrorism and atrocity / Makoto Muto -- On the nonduality of good and evil / David Loy -- The psychohistory of sacrifice / David Lotto -- Fascism resurgent / David Lotto -- Aum Shinrikyo and apocalyptic violence / Stanley Rosenman -- Terror and gallows humor, or, can life be beautiful after September 11? / Wendy Doniger.

ISBN

• 3898062821 (pbk.)
• 9783898062824 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library