Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence /

Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence / / ed. by Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts.

This groundbreaking anthology provides the most comprehensive overview for understanding the fascinating relationship between religion and violence--historically, culturally, and in the contemporary world. Bringing together writings from scholarly and religious traditions, it is the first volume to...

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Juergensmeyer, Mark,
Kitts, Margo,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
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Bliain Foilsithe:2011
Teanga:English
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Why Is Religion Violent and Violence Religious?
  • Part I. Religious Justifications for Violence
  • Introduction to Part I
  • 1. Kautilya
  • 2. Sun Tzu
  • 3. The Bhagavad Gita
  • 4. Soho Takuan
  • 5. The Hebrew Bible
  • 6. The Qur'an
  • 7. Thomas Aquinas
  • 8. Reinhold Niebuhr
  • 9. Michael Bray
  • 10. Abd al-Salam Faraj
  • 11. Meir Kahane
  • 12. Shoko Asahara
  • 13. 9/11 Conspirator
  • Part II. Understanding the Religious Role in Violence
  • Introduction to Part II
  • 14. Émile Durkheim
  • 15. Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss
  • 16. Sigmund Freud
  • 17. René Girard
  • 18. Walter Burkert
  • 19. Maurice Bloch
  • 20. Georges Bataille
  • 21. Karl Marx
  • 22. Nancy Jay
  • 23. Elaine Scarry
  • 24. Jean Baudrillard
  • 25. Ashis Nandy
  • Closing Comments: The Connection between War and Sacrifice
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Permissions
  • About the Editors
  • Index

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