Understanding Apocalyptic Terrorism: Countering the Radical Mindset

by Frances Flannery and Frances L. Flannery

This book explores a cross-cultural worldview called 'radical apocalypticism' that underlies the majority of terrorist movements in the twenty-first century.

Although not all apocalypticism is violent, in its extreme forms radical apocalypticism gives rise to terrorists as varied as members of Al Qaeda, Anders Behring Breivik, or Timothy McVeigh. In its secular variations, it also motivates ideological terrorists, such as the eco-terrorists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138779547
• ISBN13: 9781138779549
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"