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Talking to the Enemy

Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What it Means to Be Human

Scott Atran author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:3rd Nov '11

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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.

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

ISBN: 9780241951767

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 24mm

Weight: 394g

576 pages