Mark Juergensmeyer

Just as hate responds to hate, those whose political fortunes depend on the manufacture of hatred seem to need each other.

Shooter Wade Michael Page thought he was a soldier in a cosmic war.

If Anders Behring Breivik isn’t a Christian terrorist, then the same can be said of Osama bin Laden and many other Islamist activists—whose writings show that they were much more interested in Islamic history than theology or scripture and imagined themselves as re-creating glorious moments in Islamic history in their own imagined wars.