Belief and Bloodshed: Religion and Violence Across Time and TraditionIntended for students as well as scholars of religion and violence, Belief and Bloodshed discusses how the relationship between religion and violence is not unique to a post-9/11 world_it has existed throughout all of recorded history and culture. The book makes clear the complex interactions between religion, violence, and politics to show that religion as always innocent or always evil is misguided, and that rationalizations by religion for political power and violence are not new. Chronologically organized, the book shows religiously motivated violence across a variety of historical periods and cultures, moving from the ancient to medieval to the modern world, ending with an essay comparing the speeches of an ancient king to the speeches of the current U.S. President. |
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Dismemberment Creation and Ritual Images of Divine Violence in the Ancient Near East | 13 |
Making Memory Ritual Rhetoric and Violence in the Roman Triumph | 29 |
Taming the Beast Rabbinic Pacification of SecondCentury Jewish Nationalism | 47 |
Violent Yearnings for the Kingdom of God Ministers Militant Anabaptism | 63 |
Imperial Christianity and Sacred War in Byzantium | 81 |
The Modern World | 95 |
Founding an Empire of Sacrifice Innocent Domination and the Quaker Martyrs of Boston 16591661 | 97 |
Holy Culture Wars Patterns of EthnoReligious Violence in Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury China | 115 |
Monks Guns and Peace Theravada Buddhism and Political Violence | 145 |
Avoiding Mass Violence at Rajneeshpuram | 165 |
Obliterating an Idol of the Modern Age The New Iconoclasm from the Twin Buddhas to the Twin Towers | 179 |
Is War Normal for American Evangelical Religion? | 195 |
On Political Theology Imperial Ambitions and Messianic Pretensions Some Ancient and Modern Continuities | 211 |
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About the Contributors | 269 |
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Belief and Bloodshed: Religion and Violence across Time and Tradition James K. Wellman Jr. Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2007 |
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| Titill | Belief and Bloodshed: Religion and Violence Across Time and Tradition G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Editor | James K. Wellman |
| Edition | illustrated, annotated |
| Útgefandi | Rowman & Littlefield, 2007 |
| ISBN | 074255824X, 9780742558243 |
| Length | 271 síður |
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