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Violence in the Name of God - The Militant Jihadist Response to Modernity (Hardcover)
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Violence in the Name of God - The Militant Jihadist Response to Modernity (Hardcover)
Series: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
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This book traces the trajectory of militant jihadism to show how
violence is more intentionally embraced as the centre of worship,
social order and ideology. Undertaking an in-depth analysis of
militant jihadist groups and utilising the work of Rene Girard,
Joel Hodge argues that the extreme violence of militant jihadists
is a response to modernity in two ways that have not been
sufficiently explored by the existing literature. Firstly, it is a
manifestation of the unrestrained and escalating state of desire
and rivalry in modernity, which militant jihadists seek to counter
with extreme violence. Secondly, it is a response to the unveiling
and discrediting of sacred violence, which militant jihadists seek
to reverse by more purposefully valorising sacred violence in what
they believe to be jihad. Relevant to anyone interested in Islam,
philosophy of religion, theology, and terrorism, Violence in the
Name of God imagines new ways of thinking about militancy in the
name of Islam in the twenty-first century.
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