Religion and violence : an encyclopedia of faith and conflict from antiquity to the present / Jeffrey Ian Ross, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ross, Jeffrey Ian, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Gale virtual reference library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Religious aspects--Encyclopedias.

Violence.

Religions--History--Encyclopedias.

Religions.

Violence--History--Encyclopedias.

History.

Violence--Religious aspects.

Genre:

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 volumes (various pagings)) : illustrations.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2011]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

V. 1, Adams, Gerry ; Africa, North ; Africa, Sub-Saharan ; African traditional religion ; Agca, Mehmet Ali ; Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades ; Al-Qaeda ; Anti-abortion violence ; Apocalypticism ; Aryan nations ; Asia, Central ; Asia, Southeast ; Assassins (Hashshashin) ; Atheism ; Aum Shinriyko ; Baha'i Faith ; Beam, Louis, Jr. ; Bin Laden, Osama ; Bloody Sunday ; Buddhism ; Butler, Richard Girnt ; Chinese folk religion ; Christian crusades ; Christian identity movement ; Christian right ; Christianity ; Church bombings ; Circumcision (female) ; Circumcision (male) ; Civil disobedience ; Colonization and Christianization ; Conflict theory ; Confucianism ; Conscientious objection ; Coughlin, Father Charles Edward ; Creativity movement and Church of the Creator ; Crucifixion ; Danish cartoon crisis ; Daoism/Taoism ; Death penalty ; Drugs ; Eastern Orthodox Christianity ; Ethnicity ; Europe ; Falun Gong

v. 2, Gandi, Mohandas K. ; Genocide ; Ghost dance and sun dance ; Girard, Rene, Theories of mimetic violence and scapegoating ; Hajj, the ; Hamas ; Hinduism ; Hizballah ; Honor killing ; Internet ; Islam ; Islamic fundamentalism ; Islamophobia ; Israel ; Jainism ; Jewish Defense League ; Jihad ; Joan of Arc ; Judaism ; Just war theory ; Dhomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah ; King, Martin Luther, Jr. ; Koresh, David ; Ku Klux Klan ; Liberation theology ; Lord's Resistance Army ; Mathews, Robert Jay ; Middle East ; Millennialism ; Muhammad ; Muhammad, Elijah ; Mujahideen ; Muslim Brotherhood ; Nation of Islam ; Nationalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Religion and violence.

ISBN:

9780765626820

0765626829

Publisher Number:

99990107692

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