Hurting the Qur'an - Suggestions Concerning the Psychological Infrastructure of Desecration

Recent years have witnessed several examples of desecrations of copies of the Qur'an as a display of non-Muslim hostility against Muslims. The present article attempts to answer a fundamental question relating to this phenomenon: how do desecrators know what acts directed at the Qur'an are...

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Main Author: Svensson, Jonas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2017]
In: Temenos
Year: 2017, Volume: 53, Issue: 2, Pages: 243-264
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Koran / Schändung / Personality construct / Personality psychology
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AE Psychology of religion
BJ Islam
Further subjects:B Conceptual Blending
B Sacralisation
B Psychological essentialism
B Qur'an
B Desecration
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