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Suicide bombers : Allah's new martyrs /
In the West, the suicide bomber has become a familiar image in newspapers and on television. In Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and elsewhere, the results of suicide bombing have been devastating. What drives young men and women to become suicide bombers? This is not a question that is ofte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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London ; Ann Arbor, MI :
Pluto Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Two forms of martyrdom
- -- 1. Islam
- - Jihad: Holy War
- - Martyrdom in Islam
- - The difficult secularisation of religion
- - Reinterpretations of martyrdom and Jihad
- - The paradoxical individualisation of religious discourse
- - Martyropathy
- - Death and fear of dying
- -- 2. The impossible national community
- - Martyrdom in Iran
- - Martyrdom in Palestine
- - Lebanon: between martyrdom and absurdity
- -- 3. The transnational Neo-umma: al-Qaeda's martyrs
- - Diasporic Ummas
- - Forms of humiliation
- - A new self-consciousness
- - The world metropolis
- - Organisational forms
- - Different types of actor
- - The new middle-class diaspora
- - The case of Britain
- - The case of America
- - Jihadist families
- - Converts
- - The exclusion of women
- - The new globalised imaginary
- -- Conclusion.