The Root of All Evil? ─ Religious Perspectives on Terrorism

Contributors identified only by name examine perspectives on terrorism in some world religions. They cover why Christian martyrs, pacifists, and just war theorists abhor terrorism; the Islamic context of global jihadism and why Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328) matters; confronting Buddhist terrorism; divine love, inevitable conflict, and the evils of envy in Hinduism; and the complicated intersection of new religious movements and terrorism. There is no index. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Lori J. Underwood is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. She holds a PhD from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and is the author of Cosmopolitanism and the Arab Spring: Foundations for the Decline of Terrorism, Terror by Consent: The Modern State and the Breach of the Social Contract, and Kant’s Correspondence Theory of Truth.