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VIOLENCE AND THE WORLDS RELGIOUS TRADITIONS: An Introduction - Softcover

JUERGENSMEYER

 
9780190649661: VIOLENCE AND THE WORLDS RELGIOUS TRADITIONS: An Introduction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0190649666 ISBN 13: 9780190649661
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Is religion inherently predisposed to violence? Or has religion been taken hostage by a politics of aggression? The years since the end of the Cold War have shown a noticeable shift in patterns of religious extremism, accentuating the uncomfortable, complex, and oft-misunderstood relationship between religion and violence. The essays in this succinct new volume examine that relationship by offering a well-rounded look at violence as it appears in the world's most prominent religious traditions, exploring Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, Sikh, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, African, and Pacific Island texts and practices. The essays in Violence and the World's Religious Traditions explore the ways in which specific religions have justified acts of destruction, in history, in scripture, and in the contemporary world. But the collection also offers an investigation of religious symbols and practices, shedding new light on the very nature of religion and confronting the question of how deeply intertwined are violence and faith.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, and Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Margo Kitts is Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies and Coordinator of Religious Studies and East-West Classical Studies at Hawai'i Pacific University in Honolulu.

Michael Jerryson is Professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0190649666
ISBN 13 
9780190649661
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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