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This book brings together a collection of interdisciplinary essays primarily by religious studies scholars, offering critical analyses of the relationship of religion and violence, particularly 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terrorism.
The essays are to reflect a broad spectrum of scholarly approaches and perspectives.
An underlying focus of the book is the claim that the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the international reaction to those events were intimately linked to cultural and social authorizing processes that could be called “religious.”
National identity formation, ritualization of traumatic events, and cultural power contestations are explored along with reflections on the role of the public intellectual in such situations.
We claim that the violence emerged from serious underlying factors, including post-colonial political factors.
What we hope to accomplish in this volume of essays is to offer a discursive space for serious critical analyses of these events by various scholars working in the field.
Contributors and Contents
The following list of contributors will appear in the forthcoming volume.
Please address comments and questions to the editors: