LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY sunfell)

Professor Mark Juergensmeyer ("Terror in the Mind of God") had these thoughts about the root of religious violence:

"[Religious violence] has much to do with the nature of the religious imagination, which has always had the propensity to absolutize and to project images of cosmic war. It also has much to do with the social tensions of this moment of history that cry out for absolute solutions, and the sense of personal humiliation experienced by men who long to restore an integrity that they perceive as lost in the wake of virtually global social and political shifts."