By R. Griffin
ISBN-10: 1137284722
ISBN-13: 9781137284723
ISBN-10: 1349317012
ISBN-13: 9781349317011
Terrorist's Creed casts a penetrating beam of empathetic figuring out into the nerve-racking and murky mental global of fanatical violence, explaining how the fanaticism it calls for stems from the profoundly human have to imbue life with that means and transcendence.
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30 Toynbee introduces these twin concepts in a section of volume eight of his magnum opus entitled Heroic Ages. 31 The template for ‘Herodization’ is the voluntary Hellenization of Judaism under King Herod as a pragmatic response to Roman occupation. The king’s strategy for ‘coping with Hellenism was, first to take the objective measure of this alien social force’s irresistibly superior power with a sober eye, and then to learn and borrow from Hellenism every Hellenic accomplishment’ that served the purpose of ‘equipping themselves for .
The king’s strategy for ‘coping with Hellenism was, first to take the objective measure of this alien social force’s irresistibly superior power with a sober eye, and then to learn and borrow from Hellenism every Hellenic accomplishment’ that served the purpose of ‘equipping themselves for . . 32 ‘Herodianism’ thus becomes in Toynbee’s analysis a generic category for those who adopt the collaborative strategy of ‘sleeping with the enemy’. They resist enforced colonization through voluntary acculturation to and alignment with the alien culture asserting its hegemony in a process amounting to self-colonization.
This ‘grand ideal’ thus, at least within the symbolic world and psyche of the fanatic, is ‘hallowed’ and ‘sacralized’ into an ultimate purpose, even if it is to be fulfilled through the human agency of terrorist acts committed in secular (‘profane’) time and even when the ideological framework specifically rejects any traditional form of religious metaphysics. Within this methodological framework, which stresses the key role played in the terrorist mindset by the primal human need for a ‘higher’ meaning to live by and the mythopoeic and ritual resources to create it from within society, terrorism is treated not as having a fibrous root-system which spreads laterally throughout the surface layers of (partially) Westernized modern societies.