Modernity and Terrorism: From Anti-Modernity to Modern Global Terror (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 52)

In Modernity and Terrorism Zafirovski and Rodeheaver analyze the nature, types, and causes of terrorism. The book redefines terrorism in novel comprehensive way, considers counter-state and state terrorism, and identifies and predicts conservative anti-modernity as the main cause of terrorism. "In Modernity and Terrorism: From Anti-Modernity to Modern Global Terror Milan Zafirovski and Daniel G. Rodeheaver analyze the nature, types, and causes of contemporary global terrorism. The book redefines modern terrorism in a novel more comprehensive manner compared to the previous literature. It examines counter-state and state terrorism, with an emphasis on the latter in light of its scale, persistence, and intensity as well as its relative neglect in the literature. The book identifies and predicts the general cause of most modern terrorism in anti-modernity as the adverse reaction to and reversal of liberal-democratic, secular, rationalistic, and globalized, modernity. In essence, it discovers and predicts anti-liberalism in the form of conservatism as the main source and force of modern terrorism."--Publisher website Dedication Contents Introduction 1 The Concept of Modern Terrorism 2 Classification of Modern Terrorism 3 Anti-Modernity and Modern Terrorism 4 Anti-Liberalism and Modern Terrorism 5 Anti-Secularism and Modern Terrorism 6 Anti-Rationalism and Modern Terrorism 7 Anti-Globalism and Modern Terrorism Conclusions References Index