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We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, And What it Means to Be Human, by Scott Atran, ...

NOT all groups that the United States government classifies as terrorist organizations are equally bad or dangerous, and not all information conveyed to them that is based on political, academic or ...

Atran (In Gods We Trust) examines the motivations of terrorists in this sprawling and timely study. Drawing upon years of travel among Muslim communities from Indonesia to Morocco, extensive ...

IS IT correct to find parallels between violent white supremacism and neo-Nazism on one hand, and the nihilist fury of ultra-militant Islam on the other? A Franco-American scholar, Scott Atran, is ...

The two men believed to be the likeliest masterminds of Saturday's Bali bombings are wily, adept at evasion and good at recruiting others to carry out suicide bombings. The recruits may carry on with ...

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The last of the shellshocked were being evacuated as I headed back toward Las Ramblas, Barcelona’s famed tourist-filled walkway where another disgruntled “soldier of Islamic State” had ploughed a van ...

Scott Atran, Ph.D., is a research professor at the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. He researches the following areas: cognitive and linguistic anthropology, ethnobiology, ...