The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide

Herausgeber: Brown, Sara E; Smith, Stephen D

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is intended as an entry point to questions about mass atrocity and genocide that are asked by and of people of faith and is is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, historical events and heated debates in this subject area.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1002g
• ISBN-13: 9780367321505
• ISBN-10: 0367321505
• Artikelnr.: 62276803

Autorenporträt

Sara E. Brown is the Executive Director of the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education and served for four years on the Advisory Board for the International Association of Genocide Scholars. She is the author of Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers (2019). Stephen D. Smith is the Finci-Viterbi Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation, Adjunct Professor of Religion, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education at the University of Southern California. He is the author of The Holocaust and the Christian World (2019), The Trajectory of Holocaust Memory (Routledge, forthcoming), and Holocaust XR (Routledge, forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Genocide in Antiquity and Holy Wars 1. Genocide in Antiquity 2.
The Roots of Antisemitism and Genocide in Christian Antiquity 3. Esau and
Amalek in the Hebrew Bible and in Second Temple Jewish Apocalyptic
Literature: From Propaganda to Genocide 4. Holy Wars, Judaism, Violence,
and Genocide: An Unholy Quadrinity? 5. The Last Crusade: Holy War and
Genocidal Practices in the Case of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) 6.
Alawite Warrior-Sheikhs: Ali Khizam and the Specter of Sectarian Violence
in Syria Section 2: The Genocide of Indigenous Peoples 7. Renewing the
World: Disrupting Settler-Colonial Destruction 8. Colonial New England:
Genocide and the Negative Myth of the Other 9. The Religious Challenges of
Linking Holocaust Memory with Colonial Violence 10. Sexual Violence as
Genocide against Indigenous Peoples: the Case of Mayan Women in Guatemala
Section 3: Religion and the State 11. Religion: A Driving Force But not a
Major Cause of the Turkish Genocide of Armenians 12. The Christian
Churches, the Nazi State, and the Holocaust 13. Religion and the 1994
Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda 14. The "Nature of Death" in the 1947
India-Pakistan Partition Genocide 15. Ritualcide Under the Khmer Rouge in
Cambodia: Animism, Genocide and War Crimes 16. Race, Religion, and the
Genocide of the Jews in Nazi Germany 17. Catholicism and State Terror in
Argentina 18. Religious Communities as Targets of the Khmer Rouge Genocide
19. Dangerous Speech Cloaked in Saffron Robes: Race, Religion, and
Anti-Muslim Violence in Myanmar 20. The Uyghur People: History Geography,
Religion, Language Section 4: The Role of Religion During Genocide 21.
Religion, Resistance, and Responding to Genocide: The Cham in Cambodia 22.
Sinners or Saviors: A Personal Perspective on Surviving the Holocaust 23.
Rwanda 1994: The Creation of Religious Identities in Genocide Propaganda
24. Faith and Women Rescuers in Rwanda 25. Jehovah's Witnesses as 'Citizens
of the Kingdom of God' 26. Music, Religion, and Genocide Section 5: Post
Genocide Considerations 27. "For Dust Thou Art, and Unto Dust Shalt Thou
Return": Jewish Law, Forensic Investigation, and Archaeology in the
Aftermath of the Holocaust 28. Forensics and Maya Ceremonies: The Long
Journey for Truth in Guatemala 29. Reforming the Church's Theology of the
Jews: Christian Responses to the Holocaust 30. Mozambique: Religious
Practices and Post-conflict Processes 31. Iraq and the Halabja 'Genocide':
The need for Transformative Justice 32. Personal Philosophies of
Forgiveness after Genocide 33. Genocide and the Human Right to Freedom of
Religion 34. Survival: The Case of Yezidi Women 35. An Assessment of the
United Nations Plan of Action for Religious Leaders and Actors to Prevent
Incitement to Violence that Could Lead to Atrocity Crimes Section 6: Memory
Culture 36. The Power of One: Narrative Analysis and an Iranian Jewish
Shoah Survivor 37. Beyond Competitive Memory: The Preeminence of the
Holocaust in Religious Studies 38. Muslim and Christian Perspectives on the
Holocaust and Genocide 39. Analyzing Holocaust Archives Through a
Quantitative Lens Epilogue: What we know and what we still need to know