Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence / Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Juergensmeyer, Mark, Editor.

Kitts, Margo, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Religious aspects.

Violence.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This groundbreaking anthology provides the most comprehensive overview for understanding the fascinating relationship between religion and violence--historically, culturally, and in the contemporary world. Bringing together writings from scholarly and religious traditions, it is the first volume to unite primary sources--justifications for violence from religious texts, theologians, and activists--with invaluable essays by authoritative scholars. The first half of the collection includes original source materials justifying violence from various religious perspectives: Hindu, Chinese, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist. Showing that religious violence is found in every tradition, these sources include ancient texts and scriptures along with thoughtful essays from theologians wrestling with such issues as military protection and pacifism. The collection also includes the writings of modern-day activists involved in suicide bombings, attacks on abortion clinics, and nerve gas assaults. The book's second half features well-known thinkers reflecting on why religion and violence are so intimately related and includes excerpts from early social theorists such as Durkheim, Marx, and Freud, as well as contemporary thinkers who view the issue of religious violence from literary, anthropological, postcolonial, and feminist perspectives. The editors' brief introductions to each essay provide important historical and conceptual contexts and relate the readings to one another. The diversity of selections and their accessible length make this volume ideal for both students and general readers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Is Religion Violent and Violence Religious?

Part I. Religious Justifications for Violence

Introduction to Part I

1. Kautilya

2. Sun Tzu

3. The Bhagavad Gita

4. Soho Takuan

5. The Hebrew Bible

6. The Qur'an

7. Thomas Aquinas

8. Reinhold Niebuhr

9. Michael Bray

10. Abd al-Salam Faraj

11. Meir Kahane

12. Shoko Asahara

13. 9/11 Conspirator

Part II. Understanding the Religious Role in Violence

Introduction to Part II

14. Émile Durkheim

15. Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss

16. Sigmund Freud

17. René Girard

18. Walter Burkert

19. Maurice Bloch

20. Georges Bataille

21. Karl Marx

22. Nancy Jay

23. Elaine Scarry

24. Jean Baudrillard

25. Ashis Nandy

Closing Comments: The Connection between War and Sacrifice

Selected Bibliography

Permissions

About the Editors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781400839940

1400839947

OCLC:

759101268