Madawi Al-Rasheed is Professor of Anthropology of Religion at King's College London. Marat Shterin is a Lectuer in Theology and Religious Studies at King's College, London.
* Acknowledgements * Contributors * Foreign words * Introduction * Between death of faith and dying for faith: reflections on religion, politics, society and violence -- Madawi Al-Rasheed and Marat Shterin * Part I: Understanding religiously motivated violence * Apocalypse, history, and the empire of modernity -- John Hall * Martyrs and martial imagery: exploring the volatile link between warfare frames and religious violence -- Stuart Wright * Violence and new religions: an assessment of problems, progress, and prospects in understanding the NRM-violence connection -- J. Gordon Melton and David G. Bromley * Of ‘cultists’ and ‘martyrs’: the study of new religious movements and suicide terrorism in conversation -- Massimo Introvigne * In God’s name: practising unconditional love to the death -- Eileen Barker * The terror of belief and the belief in terror: on violently serving God and nation -- Abdelwahhab El-Affendi * Part II: Religiously motivated violence in specific contexts * Rituals of life and death: the politics and poetics of jihad in Saudi Arabia -- Madawi Al-Rasheed * The Islamic debate over self-inflicted martyrdom -- Azam Tamimi * The radical nineties revisited: jihadi discourses in Britain -- Jonathan Birt * Inscriptions of violence in northern Yemen: haunting histories, unstable moral spaces -- Gabriele vom Bruck * al-Shahada: a centre of the Shiite system of belief -- Fouad Ibrahim * Urban unrest and non-religious radicalization in Saudi Arabia -- Pascal Ménoret and Awadh al-Utaybi * Bodily punishments and the spiritually transcendent dimensions of violence: a Zen Buddhist example -- Ian Reader * Jewish millennialism and violence -- Simon Dein * Part III: Reporting religiously motivated violence * Sacral violence: cosmologies and imaginaries of killing -- Neil Whitehead * Journalists as eyewitnesses -- Noha Mellor * Understanding religious violence: can the media be trusted to explain? -- Mark Huband * Index *
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