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Tables of Contents for Terror in the Mind of God
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Revised Edition
xi
Preface and Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1 Terror and God
3
16
The Meaning of Religious Terrorism
4
6
Seeing Inside Cultures of Violence
10
9
Cultures of Violence
2 Soldiers for Christ
19
26
Mike Bray and Abortion Clinic Bombings
20
4
Theological Justifications
24
6
Eric Robert Rudolph and Timothy McVeigh
30
6
Catholics and Protestants in Belfast
36
9
3 Zion Betrayed
45
16
Yoel Lerner and the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
46
4
Baruch Goldstein 's Attack at the Tomb of the Patriarchs
50
3
Meir Kahane and Jewish Justifications for Violence
53
8
4 Islam's "Neglected Duty"
61
24
Mahmud Abouhalima and the World Trade Center Bombing
62
8
Abdul Aziz Rantisi and Hamas Suicide Missions
70
10
Modern Islamic Justifications for Violence
80
5
5 The Sword of Sikhism
85
18
Simranjit Singh Mann and India's Assassinations
87
7
Sikh and Hindu Justifications for Violence
94
9
6 Armageddon in a Tokyo Subway
103
18
Takeshi Nakamura and the Aum Shinrikyo Assault
106
7
Can Buddhist Violence Be Justified?
113
8
The Logic of Religious Violence
7 Theater of Terror
121
27
Performance Violence
124
4
Setting the Stage
128
7
A Time to Kill
135
6
Reaching the Audience
141
7
8 Cosmic War
148
19
Grand Scenarios
152
6
Symbolic War
158
5
When Symbols Become Deadly
163
4
9 Martyrs and Demons
167
23
Sacrificial Victims
168
6
The Invention of Enemies
174
7
America as Enemy
181
4
Satanization and the Stages of Empowerment
185
5
10 Warriors' Power
190
29
Empowering Marginal Men
191
7
Why Guys Throw Bombs
198
12
Fighting for the Rule of God
210
9
11 The Mind of God
219
32
Empowering Religion
221
7
Postmodern Terror
228
5
Destroying Violence
233
18
Notes
251
30
Interviews and Correspondence
281
4
Bibliography
285
20
Index
305