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For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism
by
Ruth Stein
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...more
Paperback, 248 pages
Published
October 28th 2009
by Stanford University Press
(first published 2009)
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