Sarojini Nadar is Desmond Tutu South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Religion and Social Justice, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. The chair is bilaterally funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Lund Mission Society (LMS) under grant number: 118854. Opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed are the author's own. This monograph was made possible through research sabbatical fellowships at Wesley House, Cambridge; University of Bamberg and the Polin Institute for Theological Research at Åbo Akademi University.

• 1. The Journey from Texts of Terror to (Con)Texts of Terrorism 2. Sacred Economies of Violence and Interpretive Communities 3. Vashti: Patriarchy, Politics and Power 4. 'Like A Virgin': Invisiblised, Invalidated, and Erased 5. Esther and Mordecai: 'Pretty Privilege' and Power - Gendered Theological Necropolitics 6. Esther and Haman: The Amalekite Trope - Blurring Boundaries of Self-Defence and Aggression 7. Conclusion

Sarojini Nadar is Desmond Tutu South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Religion and Social Justice, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. The chair is bilaterally funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Lund Mission Society (LMS) under grant number: 118854. Opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed are the author's own. This monograph was made possible through research sabbatical fellowships at Wesley House, Cambridge; University of Bamberg and the Polin Institute for Theological Research at Åbo Akademi University.

• 1. The Journey from Texts of Terror to (Con)Texts of Terrorism 2. Sacred Economies of Violence and Interpretive Communities 3. Vashti: Patriarchy, Politics and Power 4. 'Like A Virgin': Invisiblised, Invalidated, and Erased 5. Esther and Mordecai: 'Pretty Privilege' and Power - Gendered Theological Necropolitics 6. Esther and Haman: The Amalekite Trope - Blurring Boundaries of Self-Defence and Aggression 7. Conclusion