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Fighting Words
Author | : Hector Avalos |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : UVA:X004863559 |
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[In this book, the author] applies [an] array of learning and of judicious reasoning to his subject and does not fall short in dealing with its many, many complexities. [His] scathing critique of religious-based violence puts disturbing questions to the traditions that wish to preach "peace" as a central teaching. -Dust jacket.
The Origins of Religious Violence
Author | : Nicholas F. Gier |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2014-08-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780739192238 |
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Religiously motivated violence caused by the fusion of state and religion occurred in medieval Tibet and Bhutan and later in imperial Japan, but interfaith conflict also followed colonial incursions in India, Sri Lanka, and Burma. Before that time, there was a general premodern harmony among the resident religions of the latter countries, and only in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries did religiously motivated violence break out. While conflict caused by Hindu fundamentalists has been serious and widespread, a combination of medieval Tibetan Buddhists and modern Sri Lankan, Japanese, and Burmese Buddhists has caused the most violence among the Asian religions. However, the Chinese Taiping Christians have the world record for the number of religious killings by one single sect. A theoretical investigation reveals that specific aspects of the Abrahamic religions—an insistence on the purity of revelation, a deity who intervenes in history, but one who still is primarily transcendent—may be primary causes of religious conflict. Only one factor—a mystical monism not favored in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—was the basis of a distinctively Japanese Buddhist call for individuals to identify totally with the emperor and to wage war on behalf of a divine ruler. The Origins of Religious Violence: An Asian Perspective uses a methodological heuristic of premodern, modern, and constructive postmodern forms of thought to analyze causes and offer solutions to religious violence.
Religious Violence in the Ancient World
Author | : Jitse H. F. Dijkstra,Christian R. Raschle |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2020-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108494908 |
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A comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.
The Myth of Religious Violence
Author | : William T Cavanaugh |
Publsiher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009-09-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780195385045 |
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Cavanaugh challenges conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the secular are constructed. He examines how timeless and transcultural categories of 'religion and 'the secular' are used in arguments that religion causes violence.
From Jeremiad to Jihad
Author | : John D. Carlson,Jonathan H. Ebel |
Publsiher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2012-06-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520271661 |
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Violence has been a central feature of America’s history, culture, and place in the world. It has taken many forms: from state-sponsored uses of force such as war or law enforcement, to revolution, secession, terrorism and other actions with important political and cultural implications. Religion also holds a crucial place in the American experience of violence, particularly for those who have found order and meaning in their worlds through religious texts, symbols, rituals, and ideas. Yet too often the religious dimensions of violence, especially in the American context, are ignored or overstated—in either case, poorly understood. From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America corrects these misunderstandings. Charting and interpreting the tendrils of religion and violence, this book reveals how formative moments of their intersection in American history have influenced the ideas, institutions, and identities associated with the United States. Religion and violence provide crucial yet underutilized lenses for seeing America anew—including its outlook on, and relation to, the world.
Empire of Sacrifice
Author | : Jon Pahl |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2010-01-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780814767641 |
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It is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent. Americans participate in religious communities in high numbers, yet American citizens also own guns at rates far beyond those of citizens in other industrialized nations. Since 9/11, United States scholars have understandably discussed religious violence in terms of terrorist acts, a focus that follows United States policy. Yet, according to Jon Pahl, to identify religious violence only with terrorism fails to address the long history of American violence rooted in religion throughout the country’s history. In essence, Americans have found ways to consider blessed some very brutal attitudes and behaviors both domestically and globally. In Empire of Sacrifice, Pahl explains how both of these distinctive features of American culture work together by exploring how constructions along the lines of age, race, and gender have operated to centralize cultural power across American civil or cultural religions in ways that don’t always appear to be "religious" at all. Pahl traces the development of these forms of systemic violence throughout American history, using evidence from popular culture, including movies such as Rebel without a Cause and Reefer Madness and works of literature such as The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Handmaid's Tale, to illuminate historical events. Throughout, Pahl focuses an intense light on the complex and durable interactions between religion and violence in American history, from Puritan Boston to George W. Bush’s Baghdad.
In the Name of God
Author | : John Teehan |
Publsiher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2010-04-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1405183829 |
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Religion is one of the most powerful forces running through human history, and although often presented as a force for good, its impact is frequently violent and divisive. This provocative work brings together cutting-edge research from both evolutionary and cognitive psychology to help readers understand the psychological structure of religious morality and the origins of religious violence. Introduces a fundamentally new approach to the analysis of religion in a style accessible to the general reader Applies insights from evolutionary and cognitive psychology to both Judaism and Christianity, and their texts, to help understand the origins of religious violence Argues that religious violence is grounded in the moral psychology of religion Illustrates its controversial argument with reference to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the response to the attacks from both the terrorists and the President. Suggests strategies for beginning to counter the divisive aspects of religion Discusses the role of religion and religious criticism in the contemporary world. Argues for a position sceptical of the moral authority of religion, while also critiquing the excesses of the “new atheists” for failing to appreciate the moral contributions of religion Awarded Honourable Mention, 2010 Prose Awards
The Destructive Power of Religion
Author | : J. Harold Ellens |
Publsiher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-05-30 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780275997083 |
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Select chapters from the controversial 4-volume set examining the influence of sacred texts shaping human nature, society, politics and military strategy across the last 3,000 years.