Apocalypse, Revolution and Terrorism: From the Sicari to the American Revolt Against the Modern World

ISBN-13: 9781138483651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 206 str.

Jeffrey Kaplan

Opis

This book focuses on religiously driven oppositional violence through the ages. Beginning with the First Century Sicari, it examines the commonalities that link apocalypticism, revolution and terrorism occurring in Judaism, Christianity and Islam past and present.

Spis treści

Introduction  PART I: This was Then  1. Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted: Premodern Religious Terrorism  2. America's Apocalyptic Literature of the Radical Right  PART II: This is Now  3. Red Dawn Is Now: Race Vs. Nation and the American Election  4. Life During Wartime: Active Measures in the Microchip Era  Conclusion

O autorze

Jeffrey Kaplan is Professor of Security Studies at the King Fahd Security College, Saudi Arabia. He is author or editor of many books on terrorism and religious violence, including Radical Religion and Violence: Theory and Case Studies (Routledge 2015).