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Online jihadist magazines and the “religious terrorism” thesis

Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo, Nyasha Maravanyika, David Nezri, Elliot Parry, Kate Thomas

Critical Studies on Terrorism, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 537 - 550

Swansea University Author: Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/17539153.2018.1471098

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This article presents findings from an empirical study of 39 issues of five online terrorist magazines in order to problematise the concept of religious terrorism. The presentation of the study’s findings focuses on the magazines’ textual content, examining the types of textual item each magazine co...

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Published in: Critical Studies on Terrorism
ISSN: 1753-9153 1753-9161
Published: 2018
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