Terror in the mind of God: the global rise of religious violence

By M. Juergensmeyer. 2000

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How New Is the New Terrorism? (2004, background): “In particular, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York, the sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway by the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo sect, and the Oklahoma City bombing by the Christian-inspired Timothy McVeigh were instrumental in putting this perspective on the research agenda.(22) Overall the p”
Does Democracy Matter? (2007, background): “Others, including Pape, argue that religious or cultural difference rather than Islam specifically increases the likelihood of suicide terrorism (Bloom 2005, Juergensmeyer 2003, Pape 2005, Asal 2006).”
Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: Associations, explanations, and implications. (2009, background): “Even though, for example, the strategic goals of terrorism usually have little to do with religion per se (Kruglanski & Fishman, 2006; Pape, 2005), and even though terrorists typically are no more religiously devout than are nonterrorists (Atran, 2003), using religion to sanctify terrorism should be”