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Talking to the Enemy Scott Atran

Talking to the Enemy By Scott Atran

Talking to the Enemy by Scott Atran


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Summary

The author has spent years talking to terrorists - from Gaza and Afghanistan, to Indonesia and Europe. In this book, he delivers a fascinating journey into the mindsets of radicalised people in the twenty-first century, and offers deep insights into the history of all religions.

Talking to the Enemy Summary

Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What it Means to Be Human by Scott Atran

Scott Atran has spent years talking to terrorists - from Gaza and Afghanistan, to Indonesia and Europe. Here he argues persuasively that to understand religious violence we need to consider terrorists' close relationships, with family and friends, as much as the causes they espouse. He delivers a fascinating journey into the mindsets of radicalised people in the twenty-first century, and deep insights into the history of all religions.

Talking to the Enemy Reviews

This deeply researched, wide ranging, and very timely study provides a compelling and often surprising account of what lies behind the jihadi phenomenon . . . . It should be read carefully, and pondered. -- Noam Chomsky
Talking to the Enemy is an important book, by turns fascinating, dense, scientific, debatable, illuminating. -- David Aaronovitch * The Times *
Scott Atran is one of the very few persons who understand religion and have figured out that religion is not about belief and cannot be naively replaced without severe side effects. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan

About Scott Atran

Scott Atran is a director of research in anthropology at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France. He is also a research associate and visiting professor in psychology and public policy at the University of Michigan, a Presidential Scholar in Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and cofounder of ARTIS Research and Risk Modeling.

Additional information

GOR005705375
9780241951767
0241951763
Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What it Means to Be Human by Scott Atran
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
2011-11-03
576
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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