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The Blackwell companion to religion and violence / edited by Andrew R. Murphy.

Contributor(s): Murphy, Andrew R, 1967-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell companions to religion: 42.Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011Description: xvi, 615 pages ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781405191319 (hardback); 1405191317 (hardback)Other title: Companion to religion and violenceSubject(s): Violence -- Religious aspects | ReligionsDDC classification: 205/.697 LOC classification: BL65.V55 | B56 2011Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Andrew R. Murphy -- Religion and violence : coming to terms with terms / John D. Carlson -- The myth of religious violence / William T. Cavanaugh -- 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 --
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 -- Enduring the sacred scars of slavery / Yolanda Pierce -- South Asia : from colonial categories to a crisis of faith? / Yasmin Khan -- Gender, religion and violence during the Holocaust / Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz -- Women in the Sastric Tradition : colonialism, law, and violence / Nandini Bhattacharyya-Panda -- Biblical metaphors for intervention in the Spanish-American war / Matthew McCullough -- Sudan : religion and conflict / Jok Madut Jok -- The battle for Australia : salvation and conquest / Marion Maddox -- Fundamentalist violence and women : Iran, Afghanistan, and Algeria / Valentine M. Moghadam --
Anti-Jewish violence in late imperial Russia / Robert Weinberg -- Religion, pluralism, and conflicts in the Pacific islands / Yannick Fer -- Ritual violence and violent ritual in Chinese popular religion / Avron Boretz -- The politics of Protestant violence : abolitionists and anti- abortionists / Joel Olson -- Colonialism and civil war : religion and violence in East Africa / Ben Jones -- Rethinking religion and violence in the Middle East / Jeroen Gunning -- Cromwell, Mather, and the rhetoric of Puritan violence / Andrew R. Murphy -- Liberation theology and the spiral of violence / Thia Cooper -- Religion and nonviolence in American history / Ira Chernus -- Religious peacebuilding / Maria Pilar Aquino.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Andrew R. Murphy -- Part I : "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 -- Part II : 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 --

Part III : 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 -- Part IV : Case studies : religion and violence, past and present. Enduring the sacred scars of slavery / Yolanda Pierce -- South Asia : from colonial categories to a crisis of faith? / Yasmin Khan -- Gender, religion and violence during the Holocaust / Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz -- Women in the Sastric Tradition : colonialism, law, and violence / Nandini Bhattacharyya-Panda -- Biblical metaphors for intervention in the Spanish-American war / Matthew McCullough -- Sudan : religion and conflict / Jok Madut Jok -- The battle for Australia : salvation and conquest / Marion Maddox -- Fundamentalist violence and women : Iran, Afghanistan, and Algeria / Valentine M. Moghadam --

Anti-Jewish violence in late imperial Russia / Robert Weinberg -- Religion, pluralism, and conflicts in the Pacific islands / Yannick Fer -- Ritual violence and violent ritual in Chinese popular religion / Avron Boretz -- The politics of Protestant violence : abolitionists and anti- abortionists / Joel Olson -- Colonialism and civil war : religion and violence in East Africa / Ben Jones -- Rethinking religion and violence in the Middle East / Jeroen Gunning -- Cromwell, Mather, and the rhetoric of Puritan violence / Andrew R. Murphy -- Future prospects : beyond violence?. Liberation theology and the spiral of violence / Thia Cooper -- Religion and nonviolence in American history / Ira Chernus -- Religious peacebuilding / Maria Pilar Aquino.

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