Terrorist's Creed: Fanatical Violence and the Human Need for Meaning

By Roger Griffin

Book Overview

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Liquid Fear of Terrorism Terrorism as Zealotry: Defending the Nomos Modernist Terrorism: Creating the Nomos The Metapolitics of Terrorism in Fiction The Metapolitics of Terrorist Radicalization Modern Zealots of the Sacred Homeland Modernist Terrorism Red, Black, and White The Hybrid Metapolitics of Religious Terrorism Islamism's Global War against Nomocide Afterthoughts on the Nature of Terrorism Endnotes Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349317012
• ISBN13: 9781349317011
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"