Books by Ariel Glucklich

In Dying for Heaven, Georgetown scholar and advisor to the defense community Ariel Glucklich explains the religious motivation of terrorism. This provocative work of political science argues that the very best qualities of religion—its ability to make people feel good and bring them together—are in fact its most dangerous. Glucklich, author of Sacred Pain and Climbing Chamundi Hill, offers a new understanding of religion and provides a vision for preventing further religiously-inspired violence.

This is a study of the contrasting Hindu concepts of adharma (chaos) and dharma (order). Glucklich uses a synthesis of phenomenological and anthropological approaches to study the structure of the imagination that produces such an apparently contradictory worldview, and how that worldview is fashioned from the Hindu attitude toward the body.