Sacred Terror

Author : Douglas E. Cowan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481304900
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Terror written by Douglas E. Cowan and published by . This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power--and the powerlessness--of religion.

Author : Daniel Benjamin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588362590
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Sacred Terror written by Daniel Benjamin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon began working on this book shortly after leaving the National Security Council, where, as director and senior director for counterterrorism, they watched the rise of al-Qaeda and helped coordinate America’s fight against Usama bin Laden and his organization. They warned in articles and interviews about the appearance of a new breed of terrorists who were determined to kill on the grand scale. More than a year before September 11, 2001, they began writing The Age of Sacred Terror to sound the alarm for a nation that had not recognized the gravest threat of our time. One of their book’s original goals has remained: to provide the insights to understand an enemy unlike any seen in living memory—one with an extraordinary ability to detect weakness and exploit it, one with a determination to inflict catastrophic damage, one that will not be deterred. But after September 11, a second, equally crucial goal was added: to understand how America let its defenses down, how warnings went unheeded, and how key parts of the government failed at vital tasks. The Age of Sacred Terror also describes the road ahead, where the terrorists will look to draw strength, and what the United States must do, at home and abroad, to stop them. For a year after the attacks that redefined terrorism and devastated the public’s sense of security, America has been searching for answers about those responsible for one of the darkest days in our history and explanations for the glaring gaps in our defenses. The Age of Sacred Terror provides both, with unique authority. It is the book that Americans must read to understand the foremost challenge we face.

Author : Betsy Reed
Publisher : Nation Books
ISBN 13 : 9781560254508
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing Sacred written by Betsy Reed and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects feminist writings from a range of international contributors on religious fundamentalism and women's oppression, citing the causes of violence against women in Muslim countries and in the west while considering its role in current and historical events. Original.

Author : Daniel E. Price
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313386390
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Terror written by Daniel E. Price and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places the current wave of religion-based terrorism in a historical perspective, explaining why religion is associated with terrorism, comparing religion-based terrorism to other forms of terrorism, and documenting how religion-based terrorism is a product of powerful political, socioeconomic, and psychological forces. Religion-based terrorism is perceived as one of the most significant threats to U.S. homeland security in the 21st century. Sacred Terror: How Faith Becomes Lethal makes the central argument that religion-based violence and terrorism is primarily a result of political, socioeconomic, and psychological forces, thereby demystifying religion-based terrorism and revealing its inherent similarity to other forms of terrorism and war. Daniel Price examines religious texts and traditions in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; looks at the history of religion-based terrorism; and explores why religion facilitates violence. He builds upon this foundation to explain how religion as an ideological force that motivates violence is not as powerful as commonly believed, and that religious fervor is not unlike other non-religious ideologies such as Marxism, nationalism, and anarchism. The work also presents in-depth analysis of the political, socioeconomic, and psychological forces that are behind religion-based violence, and discusses case studies from multiple religions that illustrate the author's argument.

Author : Daniel Benjamin
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812969847
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Sacred Terror written by Daniel Benjamin and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003-10-14 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2004 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations From two of the world’s foremost experts on the new terrorism comes the definitive book on the rise of al-Qaeda and America’s efforts to combat the most innovative and dangerous terrorist group ever. Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon trace the growth of radical Islam from its medieval origins and, drawing on their years of counter-terrorism work at the National Security Council, provide essential insights into the thinking of Usama bin Laden and his followers. With unique authority, they analyze why America was unable to defend itself against this revolutionary threat on September 11, 2001, why bin Laden’s apocalyptic creed is gaining ground in the Islamic world, and what the United States must do to stop the new terror.

Author : Paul W. Kahn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472022946
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Violence written by Paul W. Kahn and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. In a startling argument, he contends that law will never offer an adequate account of political violence. Instead, we must turn to political theology, which reveals that torture and terror are, essentially, forms of sacrifice. Kahn forces us to acknowledge what we don't want to see: that we remain deeply committed to a violent politics beyond law. Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights. Cover Illustration: "Abu Ghraib 67, 2005" by Fernando Botero. Courtesy of the artist and the American University Museum.

Author : Douglas E. Cowan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Terror written by Douglas E. Cowan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power--and the powerlessness--of religion.

Author : Livia Rokach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Israel's Sacred Terrorism written by Livia Rokach and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743233425
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Rage written by Robin Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a generation, Muslim extremists have targeted Americans in an escalation of terror that culminated in the September 11 attacks. Our shared confusion -- Who are the attackers? Why are we targets? -- is cleared away in a book as dramatic as it is authoritative. Updated with new chapters on Afghanistan and the the broader Islamic movement, Sacred Rage combines Robin Wright's extraordinary reportage on the Islamic world with an historian's grasp of context to explain the roots, the motives, and the goals of the Islamic resurgence. Wright talked to terrorists, militant religious leaders, and fighters from Beirut to Islamabad and Kabul. Their voices of rage reverberate here -- right up to the attacks in New York and Washington. Across continents extends a challenge we fail to understand at our peril. Sacred Rage now casts light on the war being fought in the shadows.

Author : Richard Marcinko
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743440080
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Terror written by Richard Marcinko and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn calls “the real deal,” Richard Marcinko delivers a Rogue Warrior thriller that finds Demo Dick darkening the aisles of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City—tracking a group of terrorists who want to turn the world’s largest Catholic church into the world’s biggest Roman candle. Nothing and no one is sacred when the Rogue Warrior smokes out a terrorist network with plans to turn the Vatican to ash. In Holy Terror, the former SEAL commander fires his first shots at a NATO conference in Rome, where he caps off his blistering anti-terror speech with a helpful visual aid—eliminating a "waiter" and playing volleyball with a live grenade. As Demo Dick and his team trail terrorist kingpin Saladin, the manhunt pulls them into tracking stolen nukes in Sicily, facing down a predator in the jungles of Thailand, and flying on a prayer aboard a hijacked jet. Marcinko's mission is one final, explosive showdown with the bad guys—and there will be hell to pay.