War and Peace (eBook, PDF)

Essays on Religion and Violence
Redaktion: Turner, Bryan S.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Reflections on Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, these original essays examine various facets of violence and human efforts to create peace. Religion is deeply involved in both processes: ones that produce violence and ones that seek to create harmony. In the war on terror, radical religion is often seen to be a major cause of inter-group violence. However, these essays show a much more complex picture in which religion is often on the receiving end of conflict that has its origin in the actions of the state in response to tensions between majorities and minorities. As this volume demonstrates, the more public religion becomes, the more likely it is to be imbricated in communal strife.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857283092
• Artikelnr.: 44361031

Autorenporträt

Bryan S. Turner is the presidential professor of sociology and the director of the Committee on Religion at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA, and the director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction by Bryan S. Turner; WAR:
Chapter 1: Sacred Memory and the Secular World: The Poland Narratives –
Alisse Waterston; Chapter 2: A Messianic Multiple: West Papua, July 1998 –
Eben Kirksey; Chapter 3: Lincoln, the Ministers of Religion and the
American Jeremiad – Jonathan Keller; Chapter 4: Spiritual Violence: Max
Weber and Norbert Elias on Religion and Civilization – Bryan S. Turner;
PEACE: Chapter 5: Quakers, the Origins of the Peace Testimony and
Resistance to War Taxes – Ana M. Acosta; Chapter 6: A Sacred Ground for
Peace: Violence, Tourism and Sanctification in Hiroshima 1960–1970 – Ran
Zwigenberg; Chapter 7: The Sectarian as a Category of Secular Power:
Sectarian Tensions and Judicial Authority in Lebanon – Raja Abillama;
Chapter 8: The Commodification of Love: Gandhi, King and 1960s
Counterculture – Alexander Bacha and Manu Bhagavan; Chapter 9: The Religion
of Brotherly Love: Leo Tolstoy and Max Weber – Bryan S. Turner; Chapter 10:
Conclusion: War and Peace – Bryan S. Turner