Bibframe Work

I. The cause. 1. Sulawesi : an anthropologist at work

2. To be human : what is it?

3. The Moors of Mezuak

II. The religious rise of civilizations. 4. Creation of the western world

5. Submission : Islam

6. The tides of terror

7. A parallel universe : the 9/11 Hamburg group and the three waves of jihad

III. Whither Al Qaeda? Bali and Madrid. 8. Farhin's way

9. The road to Bali : "For all you Christian infidels!"

10. The JI social club

11. The great train bombing : Madrid, March 11, 2004

12. Looking for Al Qaeda

13. The ordinariness of terror

IV. The wild east. 14. Prying into Pakistan

15. A question of honor : why the Taliban fight and what to do about it

16. The terror scare : exaggerating threats at home and abroad

V. War parties : groups, God, and glory. 17. All in the family : imagined kin, friendship, and teamwork

18. Blood sport : war makes men men

19. Beyond all reason : the Clausewitz delusion

VI. "The mother of all problems" : Palestine, the world's symbolic knot. 20. Martyrdom 101

21. Words to end wars : the science of the sacred

VII. The divine dream and the collapse of cultures. 22. Bad faith : the new atheist salvation

23. Human rites : natural origins and evolution of religion

24. Our religious world

Epilogue : Abe's answer : the question of politics.