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Some of the world's most lethal terrorist organizations have become media-centric enterprises, while also hijacking a major world religion, holding large swathes of physical territory, and governing their own virtual states. In this concise and penetrating book, Seib traces how terrorism has proliferated and increased significantly in menace in the relatively brief period between the rise of al-Qaeda and the creation of Islamic State. With close attention to the linkages between media, religion, and violence, the book offers incisive analysis of how organizations such as Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram operate and reflects on how terrorism may continue to evolve. Seib argues that twenty-first-century terrorism is enabled by new media and depends on social networks as connective tissue, while interacting simultaneously with religion and socio-economic and political grievances. As Terrorism Evolves prescribes new measures for counterterrorism efforts, underscores the importance of soft power, and makes a strong case for recognizing that we have entered an era of terrorism of undetermined duration.

Religion war und ist in der gesamten Kaukasusregion, so der Verfasser, ein zentraler Identitätsfaktor. Dabei steht allerdings nicht individuelle Frömmigkeit im Vordergrund, sondern die identitätsstiftende Funktion der Religion. Dies trifft insbesondere für solche Gruppen zu, die sich gegenüber anderen Ethnien oder der vorherrschenden russisch-europäisch geprägten Sowjetkultur selbst als Minderheit wahrnahmen. Mit dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion schienen partikularistische Tendenzen zu dominieren, die sich in der (Wieder-) Gründung der drei südkaukasischen Nationalstaaten und dem Souveränitätsstreben der sieben russischen Teilrepubliken im Nordkaukasus augenfällig ausdrückten. Wegen der staatlichen Unterdrückung der Religion, ihrer strikten Überwachung und des generell antireligiösen Diskurses in einer weitgehend säkularisierten Gesellschaft war die Zahl der Geistlichen in der Sowjetunion äußerst begrenzt und ihr theologisches Niveau meist niedrig. Dies ist mit ein Grund dafür, dass von Seiten der Geistlichen keine selbstbewusst vorgetragenen und theologisch fundierten Positionen gegen Nationalismus, Krieg und Gewalt zu erwarten sind. Andernfalls würde man sich ja mit der jeweiligen Regierung und dem nationalistisch dominierten politischen Diskurs der Bevölkerungsmehrheit anlegen, was auch dem Interesse der Geistlichkeit an einer Stabilisierung ihrer gesellschaftlichen Position widerspricht. Außerdem gingen das nationale Selbstverständnis der Mehrheitsbevölkerung und die dominierende Religion eine Art symbiotischer Verbindung ein, sodass öffentlicher Widerspruch gegen die "nationalen" Interessen durch die religiösen Würdenträger kaum denkbar ist. (ICF2)

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributor Biographies -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Interfaith Contributions to Nurturing Cultures of Peace -- What Is Peace? -- What Is Religion? -- Religious Experience, Religious Institutions, and Interreligious Peace -- References -- Chapter 2: Peacekeeping, Peacemaking, Peacebuilding: An Interreligious Spirituality for Just Peace -- Just Peacebuilding: Gift and Task of Religion -- Religion and Violence -- René Girard on the Violence of Religion -- Religion, Indispensable Partner in Just Peacebuilding -- Religious Reachings on Just Peacebuilding

This book contributes to the discussions on the role of spirituality in organizing and leading, taking a philosophically and theologically rigorous perspective. Developing an approach to spirituality informed by Platonist philosophy and classical and mystical streams of Christian theology, the text re-assesses the role of religious insights and beliefs in contemporary theory and practice of management. It also engages critically with the more fundamental questions, such as the validity and limits of scientific method, the shaping of the cultural contexts of organizations, as well as the status of modern materialism. Spirituality and Religion in Organizing further discusses topics such as charismatic leadership, the ethics of martyrdom and the spiritual models of organizing from the perspective of the proposed metaphysical-theological stance.

"The relationships between law, science, and society are central to a diverse range of practical, ethical and theoretical issues. With an increasing emphasis on the fluidity and uncertainty of each of these areas, the analysis of their intersection(s) has become complex. This book examines the interface between studies of these topics from the socio-legal studies and science and technology studies (STS) perspectives. The scholars gathered here interrogate the joint roles of law and science in the construction and stabilization of socio-technical networks, objects, and standards, as well as their place in the production of contemporary social realities and subjectivities. Accordingly, scholars have borrowed from a range of disciplines and case studies to analyse not only how such intersections materialize, but also how and from where they should be approached. Knowledge, Technology and Law illustrates how these complex and multifaceted links between scientific knowledge, material artefacts, practices and identities can be charted. This volume presents original dialogues on this emerging field and will therefore be of great interest to those researching the intersections of law, science, and society"--

"As religious polarisation in society deepens, political actors and policy-makers have begun to struggle with questions on the role of the dominant religion and how religion influences constitutional commitments and development. By focusing on Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, Constitutions, Religion and Politics in Asia demonstrates how constitution-making and the operation of constitutional arrangements involving religion cannot be separated from the broader political dynamics of society. Although constitutions establish legal and political structures of government institutions and provide tools for rights protection, they do not operate in a vacuum divorced from the games of power and the political realities surrounding them. Here, Shah sets out how constitutions operate and evolve and demonstrates how constitutional provisions can produce unintended consequences over time. A vital new source of scholarship for students and scholars of law and religion and comparative constitutional law, and those interested in issues of constitutionalism and legal and political history in Asia"--