Discuss Mark Juergensmeyer's views on religious terrorism
What will be an ideal response?
• Juergensmeyer approached several militants from differing religious traditions around the world.
• Discussions are categorized to find commonalities.
• The findings are based on the meanings his subjects attach to modernity.
• Terrorism is created by the meanings subjects attach to social situations producing a common pattern in religious terrorist organizations.
• Believers must identify with a deity and think they are participating in a cosmic struggle to change history – the outcome of the struggle will lead to a new relationship between good and evil.
• When they feel the struggle has reached the critical stage, violence may be endorsed and terrorism may result.
• The call to violence is a call to purify the world in a holy war that eliminates the nonbeliever and the incorrect interpreters of tradition.
• The lines of battle are clear and positions cannot be compromised.
• Such a war allows only one way of thinking: those people who do not stand with the holy warrior are evil.
• The holy terrorist is victorious either by killing the enemy or dying in the struggle.
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