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For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism
โ Scribed by Ruth Stein
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 246
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
For Love of the Father provides a psychological explanation of the attraction of destructive and self-destructive fundamentalism in terms of male longings.
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