Chichester, West Sussex Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
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Part of the series Blackwell companions to religion 42;Blackwell companions to religion 42.
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- The timely Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who provide a coherent state of the art overview of the complex relationships between religion and violence. This Companion tackles one of the most important topics in the field of Religion in the twenty-first century, pulling together a unique collection of cutting-edge work. A focused collection of high-quality scholarship provides readers with a state-of-the-art account of the latest work in this field. The contributors are broad-ranging, international, and interdisciplinary, and include historians, political scientists, religious studies scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, theologians, scholars of women’s and gender studies and communication — Provided by publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Andrew R. Murphy — Religion and violence : defining terms, defining relationships. Religion and violence : coming to terms with terms / John D. Carlson The myth of religious violence / William T. Cavanaugh — Disciplinary Perspectives. Religion and violence : an economic approach / Anthony Gill Religion, identity, and violence : some theoretical reflections / Aziz Esmail Anthropological reflections on religion and violence / Bettina E. Schmidt Spiritual devotion and self-annihilation : an evolutionary perspective / Ariel Glucklich The sociology of religious violence / Charles Selengut Religion, law, and violence / David E. Guinn Mediating religious violence / Jolyon Mitchell Gender in the production of religious and secular violence / Janet R. Jakobsen Explaining religious violence : retrospects and prospects / Hector Avalos — Traditions and movements, concepts and themes. Christianity and violence / Jonathan Ebel Genesis 34 and the legacies of biblical violence / Elliott Horowitz Islam and violence / Beverley Milton-Edwards Religion and violence in Hindu traditions / Jeffery D. Long Buddhism and symbolic violence / Bernard Faure Religion, violence, and Shinto / Walter A. Skya Confucian ethical action and the boundaries of peace and war / Don J. Wyatt Violence in Chinese religious culture / Barend J. ter Haar The dialectic of violence in Jainism / Christopher Key Chapple Just war and jihad of the sword / James Turner Johnson Jihad and martyrdom in classical and contemporary Islam / David Cook Sacred Terror : the psychology of contemporary religious terrorism / James W. Jones The transformation of failure and the spiritualization of violence / Ian Reader Sacrifice and violence / Kathryn McClymond History, humiliation, and religious violence / Ellen Posman Reconceptualizing totalitarianism and fascism / Robert Imre — Case studies : religion and violence, past and present. Enduring the sacred scars of slavery / Yolanda Pierce South Asia : from
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