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Author Stein, Ruth, Ph. D.

Title For love of the father : a psychoanalytic study of religious terrorism / Ruth Stein.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 120 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Meridian : crossing aesthetics
Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-209) and index.
Contents Evil as love and as liberation : the mind of a suicidal religious terrorist -- Fundamentalism as vertical mystical homoeros -- Purification as violence -- Regression to the father : clinical narratives and theoretical reflections -- The triadic structure of evil.
Summary For Love of the Father provides a psychological explanation of the attraction of destructive and self-destructive fundamentalism in terms of male longings.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Terrorism -- Psychological aspects.
Terrorism -- Psychological aspects.
Terrorists -- Psychology.
Terrorists -- Psychology.
Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Stein, Ruth, Ph. D. For love of the father. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 9780804763059 (DLC) 2009029788 (OCoLC)427644982
ISBN 9780804772846 (electronic book)
0804772843 (electronic book)