This book focuses on religiously driven oppositional violence through the ages. Beginning with the First Century Sicari, it examines the commonalities that link apocalypticism, revolution and terrorism occurring in Judaism, Christianity and Islam past and present.
Jeffrey Kaplan is Professor of Security Studies at the King Fahd Security College, Saudi Arabia. He is author or editor of many books on terrorism and religious violence, including Radical Religion and Violence: Theory and Case Studies (Routledge 2015).
Introduction PART I: This was Then 1. Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted: Premodern Religious Terrorism 2. America's Apocalyptic Literature of the Radical Right PART II: This is Now 3. Red Dawn Is Now: Race Vs. Nation and the American Election 4. Life During Wartime: Active Measures in the Microchip Era Conclusion