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Brimming with lively wit and penetrating insight, Holy Terror offers a profound and timely investigation of the idea of terror, drawing upon political, philosophical, literary, and theological sources to trace a genealogy from the ancient world to the present day. Famed critic Terry Eagleton offers here a metaphysics of terror with a serious historical perspective. Writing with remarkable clarity and persuasiveness, Eagleton examines a concept whose cultural impact predates 9/11 by millennia. From its earliest manifestations in rite and ritual, through its rebirth as a political idea with the French Revolution, to the 'War on Terror' of today, terror has been regarded with both horror and fascination. Eagleton examines the duality of the sacred (both life-giving and death-dealing) and relates it, via current and past ideas of freedom, to the idea of terror itself. Stretching from the cult of Dionysus to the thought of Jacques Lacan, the book sheds light into ideas of God, freedom, the sublime, and the unconscious. It also examines the problem of evil, and devotes a concluding chapter to the idea of tragic sacrifice and the scapegoat. Written by one of the world's foremost cultural critics, Holy Terror is a provocative and ambitious examination of one of the most urgent issues of our time.

Terror. --- Terrorism --- Violence --- Religious aspects. --- Terreur --- Terror --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Religious aspects --- terrorism --- metaphysics --- politics --- history --- warfare

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9-11 --- politiek --- media --- war on terror --- totale controle --- bewustzijnsmanipulatie --- ascensie van de aarde --- 2012 --- een nieuwe wereldorde --- new age

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"From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence. For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after Sept 11: That faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance and divisiveness--something bad for society. But how accurate is that view? And does it apply equally to all faiths? In these troubled times, we risk basing decisions of real and dangerous consequence on mistaken understandings of the faiths subscribed around us, in our immediate community as well as globally. And so, with her deep learning and sympathetic understanding, Karen Armstrong examines the impulse toward violence in each of the world's great religions.

Violence --- India --- China --- Hebrews --- peace --- Jesus --- Byzantium --- Muslims --- Crusade and Jihad --- Modernity --- religion --- the secular --- holy terror --- global Jihad --- Hinduism --- Judaism --- Christianity --- Islam --- Asia --- Middle-East --- Europe

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"This book explores the challenge posed by the immersion of 15 million Muslims in Western democracies and the terrorists present within the larger body of believers. The fact that immersion is insufficient to stem the tide of extremism is discussed, along with the factors that contribute to the growth of radical Islam"--Provided by publisher.

Islam and politics --- Islamic fundamentalism --- Islam et politique --- Intégrisme islamique --- radical Islam in the West --- authoritarianism --- piety --- Western democracies --- culture-clash --- Islamist terror --- Jihad --- Islamism --- the internet

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abusive relationships --- domestic violence --- religious fanaticism --- childhood abuse --- religious cults --- Bella Hope Shiloh --- mind control and exploitation --- deprivation and terror --- freedom --- domestic abuse