Terror and the Sacred

The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory January 1, 2002
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Hale - Book Profile: Terror and the Sacred - JCRT 3.2

Terror and the Sacred

Book Profiles:
R. Scott Appleby, The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation. Boston: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000. 429 pages. ISBN: 0847685551.

Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 316 pages. ISBN: 0520223012.

David Hale
University of Denver

Like many in America, I was dumbfounded by the "events" of September 11. Add horrified and transfixed as well. A "grotesque obscenity" I heard one British newscaster say. So how do we make sense of such senselessness? How do we comprehend the incomprehensible?

David Hale is associate book review editor for the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the Study of Religion at the University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology. He is also a regular columnist on religion for The Aspen Times in Aspen, Colorado.

' 2002 David Hale. All rights reserved.
Updated 07/28/21.
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