{"id":38961,"date":"2011-09-04T15:44:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/new-point-of-inquiry-%e2%80%94-scott-atran-violent-extremism-and-sacred-values-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2011-09-04T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:44:18","slug":"new-point-of-inquiry-%e2%80%94-scott-atran-violent-extremism-and-sacred-values-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/new-point-of-inquiry-%e2%80%94-scott-atran-violent-extremism-and-sacred-values-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"New Point of Inquiry \u2014 Scott Atran: Violent Extremism and Sacred Values | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve been on the road so I’m a day late in notifying folks about my latest hosted episode of the show<\/a>:<\/p>

In less than two weeks, the ten year anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil—9\/11—will be upon us.<\/p>

In the past decade, there has been much debate and discussion about the root causes of terrorism and violent extremism. There has also been considerable scientific study of the matter.<\/p>

Fortunately, Point of Inquiry<\/em> recently caught up with the anthropologist Scott Atran, a world leader in this research. Atran has met with terrorists face to face. He has interviewed mujahedin, met with Hamas, talked to the plotters of the Bali bombing-and sometimes found his life at risk by doing so.<\/p>

There’s probably nobody better if you want to talk about terrorism, what motivates it, and how these extremes fit within the broad tapestry of human nature.<\/p>

Scott Atran is a research director in anthropology at the French National Center for Scientific Research, and holds a variety of appointments at other academic institutions. He’s also the author of several books including In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion<\/em> and Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists<\/em>. He has published frequent op-eds in the New York Times<\/em> and his research has been published in Science<\/em>, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>, and other leading publications.<\/p><\/blockquote>

You can listen to the show here<\/a>. Note: Some listeners over there are already wrongly calling Atran a “postmodernist,” and he has responded himself in the comments.<\/p>

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