为什么会有人相信上帝会制裁恐怖主义？为什么近年来宗教力量的重新发现表现得如此血腥？如果有的话，我们能做些什么？
《上帝心中的恐惧》第四版回答了这些问题和更多问题。这本书经过彻底的修订和扩展，详细分析了与世界上几乎所有主要宗教传统有关的恐怖主义：反对穆斯林移民的欧洲基督徒；支持堕胎诊所爆炸和民兵行动的美国基督徒；中东的穆斯林与ISIS、基地组织和哈马斯的崛起有关；支持迫害巴勒斯坦人的以色列犹太人；印度的印度教教徒与袭击古吉拉特邦穆斯林和刺杀英迪拉·甘地的锡克教徒有关；缅甸的佛教武装分子参与了反穆斯林暴力活动，日本的佛教武装分子参与了东京地铁的神经毒气袭击。
马克·尤尔根斯迈耶（Mark Juergensmeyer）通过广泛的个人采访，向读者介绍了那些以宗教名义实施和支持暴力的人的心态。在确定这些暴力文化中的模式后，他解释了宗教和暴力为什么以及如何联系在一起，以及宗教恐怖主义行为如何不仅出于战略原因，而且是为了实现象征性目的。上帝心中的恐惧仍然是宗教和现代社会学生不可或缺的资源。
Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, 4th Edition
Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism? Why has the rediscovery of religion’s power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way? What, if anything, can be done about it?
Terror in the Mind of God, now in its fourth edition, answers these questions and more. Thoroughly revised and expanded, the book analyzes in detail terrorism related to almost all the world’s major religious traditions: European Christians who oppose Muslim immigrants; American Christians who support abortion clinic bombings and militia actions; Muslims in the Middle East associated with the rise of ISIS, al Qaeda, and Hamas; Israeli Jews who support the persecution of Palestinians; India’s Hindus linked to assaults on Muslims in the state of Gujarat and Sikhs identified with the assassination of Indira Gandhi; and Buddhist militants in Myanmar affiliated with anti-Muslim violence and in Japan with the nerve gas attack in Tokyo’s subway.
Drawing from extensive personal interviews, Mark Juergensmeyer takes readers into the mindset of those who perpetrate and support violence in the name of religion. Identifying patterns within these cultures of violence, he explains why and how religion and violence are linked and how acts of religious terrorism are undertaken not only for strategic reasons but to accomplish a symbolic purpose. Terror in the Mind of God continues to be an indispensible resource for students of religion and modern society.
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