![]() ![]() In Weber’s argument “rational empirical knowledge has consistently worked through to the disenchantment of the world and its transformation into a causal mechanism.” He did not see this as a one-way linear process however. ![]() Such popular misunderstandings in international circles seem to be grounded in both ignorance and in the rather truncated view of “religion” espoused by Westerners nourished in rationalised realms that have been cleansed of “magical enchantment.” I point here to Max Weber’s emphasis on “disenchantment” as the corollary of secular rationality. “The Tamils are Hindu and the Tamil Tigers are secularist,” says Peter Coleman. It is assumed that all the Tiger activists are Hindu and that the LTTE project, in contrast to that of the jihadists, is purely secular. In general surveys two gross errors are sometimes perpetuated. The heightened global emphasis on suicide bombers and “terrorists” has led to a greater interest in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the Tamil Tigers). Michael Roberts, 8 November 2020 … The photographs are fresh additions … and so too the highlighting within the text. For this reason, it was a refreshing READ for me and brought up specific details that are pertinent to any debate surrounding the motivations that induce self-immolation, jihadist killings of a suicidal nature, et cetera… The Bibilography will also aid present investigations though, of course, other writings have appeared since then on Islamic jihadists and other martyrdom operations…. Some of the details and arguments have, in fact, been obliterated within my fading memory. 28 in 2005 after the usual refereeing process. It appeared in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism vol. This article from my pen was probably drafted in 2004. ![]()
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