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portada For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2009
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
0804763046
ISBN13
9780804763042
Edition No.
1

For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

Ruth Stein (Author) · Stanford University Press · Hardcover

For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) - Ruth Stein

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Synopsis "For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)"

Ruth Stein's pioneering study explains suicidal terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective. She argues that most Islamic extremists undertake destructive and self-destructive actions not out of blind hatred, nor even for political gain, but to achieve an explosive merger with a transcendent awesome Father, God. The extremist is thus motivated more by his love for God than his hatred of the infidel. The contemporary Islamic terrorist kills "God's enemies" to express his intoxication with and complete submission to the God-idea. Stein further shows that this same leitmotif of filial submission and sacrifice runs through patriarchal monotheism in general.

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