Framing the Intentions of Suicide Bombers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4313404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naomi Janowitz (0000-0002-7725-1970, University of California, Davis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 864 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13090864 |
| OpenAlex | W4296051490 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
Despite the extensive information known about suicide bombings, widely-varying intentions have been used by many scholars to explain the religious motivations for the violence: these events are framed by participants as religious experiences, raising complex questions about the relationship between religious experience and violence. Recent studies use the vocabulary of religious studies-sacrifice, martyr, witness-to locate "cultures of violence" in a specific psychic structure, in a specific religion, or in religion in general; this paper compares three major studies that are representative of contemporary debate about religious experience. Ivan Strenski's approach offers the broadest view, grounding suicide bombings in specific Islamic shaping of religious experience by a (non-normative) view of self-sacrifice emboldened by notions of jihad. Gideon Aran reconstructs a much narrower frame, a mutual attachment by bombers and their enemies around motivations from the redemptive capacity of blood (spilling and collecting). Ruth Stein psychoanalyzes the mind of a specific suicide bomber, Mohammed Atta, locating a complex web of love and hate as a motivation. These studies, each in a different way, demonstrate just how elusive the intentions of bombers remain and the sheer range of frameworks that might illuminate the aims of individuals who engage in suicide bombings
Criminology · Islam · Political science · Psychic · Religious violence · Sacrifice · Sociology · Witness · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |