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  "publishedAt": "2002-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Hale - Book Profile: Terror and the Sacred - JCRT 3.2 \n\nTerror and the Sacred\n\nBook Profiles:  \nR. Scott Appleby, _The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation_. Boston: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000. 429 pages. ISBN: 0847685551.\n\nMark Juergensmeyer, _Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence_. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 316 pages. ISBN: 0520223012.\n\nDavid Hale  \nUniversity of Denver\n\n  \n\nLike 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?\n\n  \n\n> 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.\n\n  \n\n> \n\n  \n\n ' 2002 David Hale. All rights reserved.  \nUpdated 07/28/21.   \nhttp://jcrt.org/archives/03.2/hale/\n\n---",
  "title": "Terror and the Sacred"
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