Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11

About this book

It is tempting to view the perpetrators of the September 11 terrorist attacks as evil incarnate. But their motives as Bruce Lincoln reveals in this insightful offering were profoundly and intensely religious. What we need now he argues is greater clarity about what we take religion to be. With great rigor and incisiveness Holy Terrors sorts through the details and the religious rhetoric of September 11--in the highjackers instructions George W. Bushs national address Osama bin Ladens videotaped reply and Pat Robertsons notorious interview with Jerry Falwell-and examines their implications for our understanding of religion and its interrelationships with politics and culture.