The radical redemption model: terrorist beliefs and narratives

What do convicted terrorists really believe when they say they committed their acts in the name of a higher authority? Combining oral history, social psychology, and historical research, Beatrice de Graaf explores the belief systems that underlie acts of religious terrorism. From interviews with ter...

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Main Author: Graaf, Beatrice de 1976- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2024]
In:Year: 2024
Online Access: Cover (Publisher)
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Keywords:
Terrorism > Psychological aspects
Terrorism > Religious aspects > Islam
Terrorists > Psychology
Terrorists > Religious life
Radicalism > Religious aspects > Islam
Espionage & secret services
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
Social, group or collective psychology
Sozialpsychologie
Spionage und Geheimdienste
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Summary:What do convicted terrorists really believe when they say they committed their acts in the name of a higher authority? Combining oral history, social psychology, and historical research, Beatrice de Graaf explores the belief systems that underlie acts of religious terrorism. From interviews with terrorist detainees from the Netherlands, Syria, Pakistan, and Indonesia-mostly jihadists and some right-wing extremists-de Graaf reconstructs life stories of surrender, struggle, sacrifice, and redemption. She unravels the nexus between extreme beliefs and terrorist activity, presenting a grounded theory of radical redemption, in which people commit acts of violence as personal, psychological quests for significance. De Graaf's analysis examines how these beliefs developed in individual cases, and what happened when the hoped-for redemption was not fulfilled. Ultimately, by focusing on the extreme beliefs of individuals, The Radical Redemption Model offers a new understanding of the elusive and perennial connection between religion and violence, and between radical beliefs and terrorism
"This is the first volume in the Extreme Belief and Behavior Series. The purpose of the series is to defend, develop, and articulate a paradigm for studying extreme belief and behavior that has been insufficiently explored in the literature. The paradigm is built on five hypotheses that together distinguish this series from other work on extreme belief and behavior:"
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis Seite 311-330
Physical Description:xi, 343 Seiten, Illustrationen
ISBN:9780197792469