What Motivates Extreme Self-Sacrifice?
New work in the field of anthropology says violent extremism isn't really motivated by religion—but by fusion with the group.
Harvey Whitehouse is the chair of anthropology, director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, and a professorial fellow of Magdalen College at the University of Oxford.
New work in the field of anthropology says violent extremism isn't really motivated by religion—but by fusion with the group.