For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism

by Ruth Stein

Book Overview

Ruth Stein's pioneering study explains suicidal terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective. She argues that most Islamic extremists undertake destructive and self-destructive actions not out of blind hatred, nor even for political gain, but to achieve an explosive merger with a transcendent awesome Father, God. The extremist is thus motivated more by his love for God than his hatred of the infidel. The contemporary Islamic terrorist kills "God's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804763054
• ISBN13: 9780804763059
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"