Modernity and Terrorism -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Concept of Modern Terrorism -- Defining Modern Terrorism -- Official Definitions of Terrorism -- Scholarly Definitions of Terrorism -- Redefining Terrorism -- 2. Classification of Modern Terrorism -- Typologies of Modern Terrorism -- State and Counter-State Terrorism -- Forms of State Terrorism -- Instances of Counter-State Terrorism -- Other Types of Terrorism -- 3. Anti-Modernity and Modern Terrorism -- What Causes and Justifies Terrorism in Western and non-Western Societies? -- A Sociological Framework for Analyzing Modern Terrorism -- Modernity, Anti-Modernity, and Pre-Modernity Revisited -- Anti-Modernity and Modern Terrorism -- Societal and Historical Conditions of Anti-Modernity and Terrorism -- Dimensions of Anti-Modernity and Modern Terrorism -- Appendix -- 3.1 A Simple Model of Anti-Modernity and Modern Terror -- 3.2 Defining Terrorism and Government -- 4. Anti-Liberalism and Modern Terrorism -- Antagonism toward Liberal-Democratic Modernity as the Factor of Modern Terrorism -- Conservative Anti-Liberalism and Terrorism -- Fascism and Terrorism -- Religious Fundamentalism and Terrorism -- Opposition to Liberal Democracy and Terrorism -- Antagonism to Political Pluralism and Culture Diversity and Terrorism -- Summary: Anti-Liberalism and Modern Terrorism -- 5. Anti-Secularism and Modern Terrorism -- Antagonism toward Secular Modernity as the Factor of Modern Terrorism -- Theocratic Revolt and Terrorism -- From Theological Orthodoxy to Terrorism through Theocratic Revolt -- World Religions and Terrorism Revisited -- 6. Anti-Rationalism and Modern Terrorism -- Antagonism toward Rationalistic Modernity as the Factor of Modern Terrorism -- Irrationalism and Terrorism -- Superstition, Fanaticism and Terrorism.

The Anti-Enlightenment and Terrorism -- Religious Anti-Rationalism and Terrorism-Factors of "Holy" Terror -- Total and Unconditional Submission of Humans to "God's Kingdom on Earth" -- "True Believers" Versus "Infidels" -- Denial and Suppression of Individual Liberties -- Religious Revolution and "Holy" War -- Anti-Modernism and Anti-Progressivism -- Religious Irrationalism-Fanaticism and "Holy" Madness -- 7. Anti-Globalism and Modern Terrorism -- Antagonism toward Global-Cosmopolitan Modernity as the Factor of Modern Terrorism -- Global-Cosmopolitan "Utopia" -- Anti-Cosmopolitanism and Terrorism -- Global-Cosmopolitan Society and Its Enemies and Global Terror -- Societal Closure and Terrorism -- Nationalism and Terrorism -- Conclusions -- Modernism, Anti-Modernism, and Modern Terrorism -- Summary -- The Present/Future Vicious Circle of Anti-Liberalism and Terrorism and How to Break It -- References -- Index.