Publications | Ideologies of War, Genocide and Terror

Orion Anderson

Shiekh Abdullah Azzam

Martyrs: The Building Blocks of Nations (Lecture)

J. W. Baird

To Die For Germany: Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon (Book Excerpt)

Peter Berger

The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (Book Excerpt)

Paul Berman

Terror and Liberalism (Book Excerpts)

Richard Bessell

Nazism and War (Book Excerpts)

Glenn Bowman

Xenophobia, Fantasy and the Nation: The Logic of Ethnic Violence in Former Yugoslavia
(Book Chapter)

Norman O. Brown

Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytic Meaning of History (Book Excerpt)
Love's Body (Book Excerpt)

Michael Bryson

Dismemberment and Community: Sacrifice and the Communal Body in the Hebrew Scriptures (Paper)

Cromwell Productions

Line Of Fire - The Somme 1916 (2003) (Video)

Brian Cronk, JT Rand and Gwen Riley

Extreme Nationalism: Hitler's Human Body and the Body Politic

Franco Fornari

The Psychoanalysis of War (Book Excerpts)

Walter S. Frank

The Reality of Battle (Book Excerpt)

Roger Friedland

Drag Kings at the Totem Ball: The Erotics of Collective Representation in Emile Durkheim and Sigmund Freud (Book Chapter)

Emilio Gentile

A Never-Never Religion, A Substitute for Religion, or a New Religion? (Book Chapter)
Fascism and the Italian Road to Totalitarianism (Paper)

Michael Geyer

“There is a Land Where Everything is Pure: Its Name is Land of Death”: Some Observations on Catastrophic Nationalism (Book Excerpts)

Joseph Goebbels

“The Jews are Guilty”: An attack on the Jews (16 November 1941)

Roger Griffin

Staging the Nation’s Rebirth: the Politics and Aesthetics of Performance in the Context of Fascist Studies (Book Chapter)
The Palingenetic Core of Generic Fascist Ideology (Book Chapter)
The Meaning of ‘Sacrifice’ in the First World War (Paper)

Paul Gross

Passchendaele (2008) (Video Excerpt)

Lee Harris

Al Qaeda's Fantasy Ideology (Paper)

Jeffrey Herf

Narratives of Totalitarianism: Nazism’s Anti-Semitic Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust (Paper)
The Jewish Enemy (Book Excerpts)
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust (Book Chapter)
The “Jewish War”: Goebbels and the Antisemitic Campaigns of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry (Paper)

Thomas Hobbes

Frontispiece to Leviathan

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Soldier's Faith (Speech)

Adam Jones

Case Study: Soviet Prisoners-of-War (POWs), 1941-42 (Paper)

James Jones

Why Does Religion Turn Violent? A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Religious Terrorism (Paper)

Paul Kahn

Evil and European Humanism (Paper)
Law and Theology (Paper)
Political Evil: Killing, Sacrifice, and the Image of God (Book Chapter)
Torture and International Law (Book Chapter)

Ernst H. Kantorowicz

The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology (Book Excerpts)

Mark Kiyak

Are You One of Us, or Are You One of Them?: Five Decades of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Lecture)

Richard A. Koenigsberg

Genocide as Immunology: The Psychosomatic Source of Culture (Paper)
History and Sacrificial Death (Paper)
If One Aspires to Achieve Peace, One Needs to Know Why People Love War (Paper)
Political Violence and the Concept of Collective Psychopathology (Paper)
Political Violence as the Destruction of Evil (Paper)
The Soldier as Sacrificial Victim: Awakening from the Nightmare of History (Paper)
War as a Ritual of Self-Destruction (Review Essay)
Why do Ideologies Exist: The Psychological Function of Culture (Paper)

Stanley Kubrick

“French Charge Germans from their Trench” (Video Excerpt)
“Precious Bodily Fluids” (Video Excerpt)

Carolyn Marvin

A New Scholarly Dispensation for Civil Religion (Book Chapter)
Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Revisiting Civil Religion (Paper)
Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag (Book Excerpts)
The Totem Myth: Sacrifice and Transformation (Book Chapter)

Clark McCauley

Understanding the 9/11 Perpetrators: Crazy, Lost in Hate, or Martyred (Paper)

David Mertz

The Racial Other in Nationalist Subjectivations: A Lacanian Analysis (Paper)

Lewis Mumford

The Myth of the Machine (Volume I): Technics & Human Development (Book Excerpts)
The Myth of the Machine (Volume II): The Pentagon of Power (Book Excerpts)

Andreas Musolff

What can Critical Metaphor Analysis Add to the Understanding of Racist Ideology? (Paper)

Babak Rahimi

The Transhuman Soldier: A Comparative Look at WWI and the Iran-Iraq War (Paper)

Eli Sagan

At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism, Political Oppression, and the State (Book Excerpts)

Elaine Scarry

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Book Excerpts)

David W. Seitz

Silent Thunder: War Memorials and the Break Up of the Collectivistic Motive to Sacrifice (Paper)

Don M. Snider

Army Professionalism, The Military Ethic, and Officership in the 21st Century (Report)

Howard F. Stein

Ruth Stein

Fundamentalism, Father and Son, and Vertical Desire (Paper)

Ivan Strenski

Sacrifice, Gift and the Social Logic of Muslim 'Human Bombers' (Paper)

Andrew Sullivan

This Is a Religious War (Article)

Robert Terrell

Reading Death and Sacrifice in the Berlin Völkischer Beobachter, February 1942 – March 1943 (Paper)

Francis Tustin

Autistic Barriers in Neurotic Patients (Book Excerpt)

Stuart W. Twemlow

The Cult Leader as Agent of a Psychotic Fantasy of Masochistic Group Death (Paper)

Albrecht Fürst von Urach

The Secret of Japan's Strength (Booklet)

Brian Victoria

Holy War: Toward a Holistic Understanding (Paper)

Michael Vlahos

Fighting Identity: Sacred War & World Change (Book Excerpts)

Peter Weir

Gallipoli (1981) (Video Excerpt)

Eric D. Weitz

"Genocide in the Twentieth Century" (Book Chapter)

Robert Whalen

German Casualties of the First World War (Statistics)

Matthew White

First World War Casualties (Statistics)

Jonah Winters

Martyrdom in Jihad (Paper)

Ofer Zur

The Love Of Hating: The Psychology Of Enmity (Paper)