[{"id":71,"title":"Religion and Terrorism: how to stop their affinity?","sha":"30eb598dc222be323423de5b2ef4750a","user_id":257,"state":"published","body":"Terror attacks sometimes and suicide terror attacks always direct our attention toward religion. It seems that maybe all religions in some sense have dangerous, lethal potential because they suggest another kind of reality which is always this better one. We could avoid this nightmarish application of religion when we changed our thinking about religion. Europe did it through philosophical Enlightenment, especially the French Lumière which ended religious conflicts in Europe. It seems that there is some correlation between critical approach toward religion understood as a fiction and the absence of religiously motivated conflicts. Religion is used to improve mental state of believers. Its aim is not to describe the real world but to provide a symbolic and metaphorical model of the reality for psychological purposes.\r\n\r\nWhen religion is understood in terms of truth and false about the world, it may cause lethal conflicts. This approach is a basic one among nations without Enlightenment period. The better one is a functional approach in terms of psychotherapeutic utility. Religion understood as a private psychotherapeutic tool, not as a source of the true knowledge about the world, will lose its lethal potential. \r\n","created_at":"2015-02-19T21:11:03.115Z","updated_at":"2021-10-12T15:36:19.274Z","zenodo_id":23168,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15537","subject":null,"tags":["religion","terrorism","fiction","enlightenment"],"vote_count":15,"view_count":1,"score":15.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":1149,"title":"Terrorism as a Factor of Production in a Coup D'état","sha":"ca8363f2ea7fb263aaa1d1cac2c8513d","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Terror campaigns are perceived as a “.. weapon of the weak..” (Leiden \u0026 Schmitt, 1968), a refuge for actors lacking the political capital for a full coup d’état. Concentrated acts of terror could provide subversive political factions with clout, consensus, and supporters for a government takeover.  Terrorist organizations utilize various mediums to gain followers by disseminating propaganda glorifying the ideological objectives of the group (Nacos,2009). Terrorism also operates as a coercive mechanism (Olson, 1965), persuading the citizenry to accept the regime change. Analogous to an extortion racket, offering protection from the group’s violent acts if the citizenry supports the movement (Tomes, 2004).\r\n\r\nSince acts of terrorism are a common antecedent (Blomberg, Hess, \u0026 Weerapana, 2004) to political coups, we might be to view terror campaigns as a factor of production in the orchestration of a takeover.  Much as labor, raw materials, and other resources are factors of production for consumer goods; terrorism does the same for facilitating abrupt political change. The actions of terrorist organizations musters support out of either fear or notoriety, providing majoritarian support for the new regime.","created_at":"2023-08-16T17:39:01.222Z","updated_at":"2023-08-18T06:00:17.963Z","zenodo_id":8260071,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8260071","subject":null,"tags":["terrorism","economics","factors of production","political takeover"],"vote_count":0,"view_count":1,"score":0.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]