Religious View on Terrorism

Religious terrorists
- Christian
- Islamist
- Jewish
- Sikh

Religious role in the terrorist attack of 911

Religious prevention – maintain the sense of significance by declaring certain things as being off limits.

Religious support – help people to feel that they are not alone in their struggle.

Religious purification – ritual purification as a coping method to people distresses by terrorist act.

Religious reframing – enable the individual to reinterpret (reframe) things so that the sense of meaning and significance is maintained.

Example : if the negative events take on a new meaning, and perhaps even become an opportunity to grow.