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Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion After September 11, 2nd Edition
Bruce Lincoln
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Description for Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion After September 11, 2nd Edition
Paperback. Beginning with a dissection of the instruction manual given to each of the 9/11 hijackers, this book talks about the September 11 and serves as a study on the character of religion. It shows how the terrorists justified acts of destruction and mass murder "in the name of God, the most merciful, the most compassionate." Num Pages: 190 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
It is tempting to regard the perpetrators of the September 11th terrorist attacks as evil incarnate. But their motives, as Bruce Lincoln's acclaimed "Holy Terrors" makes clear, were profoundly and intensely religious. Thus what we need after the events of 9/11, Lincoln argues, is greater clarity about what we take religion to be. "Holy Terrors" begins with a gripping dissection of the instruction manual given to each of the 9/11 hijackers. In their evocation of passages from the Quran, we learn how the terrorists justified acts of destruction and mass murder "in the name of God, the most merciful, the ... Read more
It is tempting to regard the perpetrators of the September 11th terrorist attacks as evil incarnate. But their motives, as Bruce Lincoln's acclaimed "Holy Terrors" makes clear, were profoundly and intensely religious. Thus what we need after the events of 9/11, Lincoln argues, is greater clarity about what we take religion to be. "Holy Terrors" begins with a gripping dissection of the instruction manual given to each of the 9/11 hijackers. In their evocation of passages from the Quran, we learn how the terrorists justified acts of destruction and mass murder "in the name of God, the most merciful, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226482033
SKU
V9780226482033
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About Bruce Lincoln
Bruce Lincoln is the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, where he is also an associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of eight books, including Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship, which received an award in 2000 from the American Academy of Religion for Excellence in ... Read more
Reviews for Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion After September 11, 2nd Edition
"From time to time there appears a work... that serves to focus the wide-ranging, often contentious discussion of religion's significance within broader cultural dynamics. Bruce Lincoln's Holy Terrors is one such text.... Anyone still struggling toward a more nuanced comprehension of 9/11 would do well to spend time with this book." - Theodore Pulcini, Middle East Journal "Modernity has ended ... Read more