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 INDICE: 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 ShintM (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 C
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-9131-9
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- Fecha Publicación: 22/04/2011
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