Book Review

Garbage removal and suicide bombing

RADICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND VIOLENT: THE NEW ECONOMICS OF TERRORISM
By Eli Berman
Published by MIT Press, $24.95

Wags will say that Eli Berman has written a study of religious terrorism with, well, the religion left out. Up to a point, Berman would agree, for he upends many popular notions in this highly readable book.

He asks: In what ways are they religious?