Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What it Means to Be Human

Description

The author has spent years talking to terrorists - from Gaza and Afghanistan, to Indonesia and Europe. In this book, he delivers a fascinating journey into the mindsets of radicalised people in the twenty-first century, and offers deep insights into the history of all religions.

Reviews

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

Author description

Scott Atran is a director of research in anthropology at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France. He is also a research associate and visiting professor in psychology and public policy at the University of Michigan, a Presidential Scholar in Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and cofounder of ARTIS Research and Risk Modeling.

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General Fields

• ISBN : 9780241951767
• Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint : Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date : November 2011
• Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 25mm
• Produced in : United Kingdom
• Availability date : February 2012
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Pages : 576
• Dewey classification : 303.625
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Scott Atran