The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: For Dummies
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444395723
• Artikelnr.: 38306148

Autorenporträt

Andrew R. Murphy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His research focuses on the interconnections between religious and political thought and practice, most particularly in the Anglo-American tradition. He is the author of Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America (2001) and Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11 (2009); he is editor or co-editor of The Political Writings of William Penn (2002), Religion, Politics, and American Identity: New Directions, New Controversies (2006); and Literature, Culture, Tolerance (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. "Religion" and "Violence": Defining Terms, Defining Relationships.
1. Religion and Violence: Coming to Terms with the Terms (John D. Carlson,
Arizona State University).
2. The Myth of Religious Violence (William T. Cavanaugh, DePaul University,
Chicago).
Part II. Disciplinary Perspectives.
3. An Economic Approach to Religion and Violence (Anthony Gill, University
of Washington).
4. Religion, Identity and Violence: Some Theoretical Reflections (Aziz
Esmail, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London).
5. An Anthropological Approach to Religion and Violence (Bettina E.
Schmidt, Bangor University, Wales).
6. An Evolutionary Perspective: Spiritual Devotion and Self-Annihilation (
Ariel Glucklich, Georgetown University).
7. The Sociology of Religious Violence (Charles Selengut, Drew University,
New Jersey).
8. Religion, Law and Violence (David E. Guinn, Center for International
Development - SUNY).
9. Mediating Religious Violence (Jolyon Mitchell, University of Edinburgh
).
10. Look Both Ways: Gender in the Production of Religious and Secular
Violence (Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College, Columbia University).
11. Explaining Religious Violence: Retrospects and Prospects (Hector
Avalos, Professor of Religious Studies, Iowa State University).
Part III. Traditions and Movements, Concepts and Themes.
12. Christianity and Violence (Jonathan Ebel, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign).
13. Genesis 34 and the Legacies of Biblical Violence (Elliott Horowitz, Bar
Ilan University).
14. Islam and Violence (Beverley Milton-Edwards, Queen's University Belfast
).
15. Religion and Violence in Hindu Traditions (Jeffery D. Long,
Elizabethtown College).
16. Buddhism and Symbolic Violence (Bernard Faure, Columbia University).
17. Religion, Violence, and Shint¿ (Walter Skya, University of
Alaska-Fairbanks).
18. Confucian Ethical Action and the Boundaries of Peace and War (Don J.
Wyatt, Middlebury College).
19. Violence in Chinese Religious Culture (Barend J. ter Haar, University
of Leiden, Netherlands).
20. The Dialectic of Violence in Jainism (Christopher Chapple, Loyola
Marymount).
21. Just War and Jihad of the Sword (James Turner Johnson, Rutgers
University).
22. Jihad and Martyrdom in Classical and Contemporary Islam (David Cook,
Rice University).
23. The Psychology of Contemporary Religious Terrorism (James W. Jones,
Rutgers University).
24. Pragmatic Responses: the Transformation of Failure and the
Spiritualisation of Violence (Ian Reader, University of Manchester).
25. Sacrifice and Violence (Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University).
26. History, Humiliation, and Religious Violence (Ellen Posman,
Baldwin-Wallace College).
27. Reconceptualizing Totalitarianism and Fascism (Robert Imre, University
of Newcastle).
Part V. Case Studies: Religion and Violence, Past and Present.
28. Enduring the Sacred Scars of Slavery (Yolanda Pierce, Princeton
Theological Seminary).
29. South Asia: From Colonial Categories to a Crisis of Faith? (Yasmin
Khan, Lecturer in Politics, Royal Holloway, University of London).
30. Gender, Religion and Violence During the Holocaust (Judith
Baumel-Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University).
31. Women in the Sastric Tradition: Colonialism, Law, and Violence (
Nandini Bhattacharyya-Panda, Indian Council of Historical Research).
32. Biblical Metaphors, Violent Intervention, and American Identity in the
Spanish-American War (Matthew McCullough, Vanderbilt University).
33. Militant Islam, Islamic Law, and National Disintegration in Sudan (Jok
Madut Jok, Loyola Marymount University).
34. The Battle for Australia: Salvation and Conquest (Marion Maddox,
Macquarie University).
35. Religious-based Violence against Women, and Feminist Responses: Iran,
Afghanistan, and Algeria (Valentine M. Moghadam. Purdue University).
36. Anti-Jewish Violence in Late Imperial Russia (Robert Weinberg,
Swarthmore College).
37. Religion, Pluralism, and Conflict in the Pacific Islands (Yannick Fer,
Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités).
38. Ritual Violence and Violent Ritual in Chinese Popular Religion (Avron
Boretz, The United Board).
39. The Politics of Protestant Violence: Abolitionists and
Anti-Abortionists (Joel Olson, Northern Arizona University).
40. Religion and violence in Africa (Ben Jones, University of East Anglia
).
41. Rethinking Religion and Politics in the Middle East (Jeroen Gunning,
University of Durham).
42. The Rhetoric of Puritan Violence (Andrew R. Murphy, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick).
Part VI. Future prospects: Beyond violence?
43. Liberation from Violence (Thia Cooper, Gustavus Adolphus College).
44. Why Nonviolence? The American Tradition (Ira Chernus, University of
Colorado at Boulder).
45. Religious Peacebuilding (Maria Pilar Aquino, University of San Diego).