Does religion cause terrorism? / Mark Juergensmeyer -- Religion, violence, nonsense, and power / William T. Cavanaugh -- Discounting religion in the explanation of homegrown terrorism: a critique / Lorne L. Dawson -- Religion, radicalization, and the causes of terrorism / Tom Mills and David Miller -- The role of the devoted actor in war, revolution, and terrorism / Scott Atran -- Girard on apocalypse and terrorism / Espen Dahl -- Rational choice and religious terrorism: its bases, applications, and future directions / Stephen Nemeth -- Terror as sacrificial ritual? A discussion of (neo- ) Durkheimian approaches to suicide bombing / Lorenz Graitl -- Imitations of terror: applying a retro style of analysis to the religion-terrorism nexus / James R. Lewis -- The LTTE: a non-religious, political, martial movement for establishing the right of self-determination of Īlattamils / Peter Schalk -- The role of religion in al-Qaeda's violence / Pieter Nanninga -- Meanings of savagery: terror, religion, and the Islamic State / Pieter Nanninga -- Where's Charlie? The discourse of religious violence in France post 7/1/2015 / Per-Erik Nilsson -- Understanding the threat of the Islamic State in contemporary Kyrgyzstan / Meerim Aitkulova -- Terror and the screen: keeping the relationship of good and bad virtual / Christopher Hartney -- Understanding Falun Gong's martyrdom strategy as spiritual terrorism / James R. Lewis and Nicole S. D'Amico.