Sacred Violence: Political Religion In A Secular Age (Rethinking Political Violence)

Sacred Violence and Religious Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to bring about a purer world. In particular, the book examines Islamism and the western secular, liberal democratic responses to it.

• • Author: D. Jones, M. Rainsborough, M.L.R Smith
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Aug 27, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 276 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 113732807X
• • ISBN-13: 9781137328076