"By “spiritual,” Cooper did not mean that in narrow religious terms but in opposition to material explanations for terror, as in assuming poverty is a “root cause” for terrorism.
While such dynamics sometimes exist, Cooper wrote that “a more conceptually adequate approach is provided by (political scientist) Eric Voegelin’s term “pneumopathology” — a disease of the spirit."
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