Sanctified Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sanctified Violence write by Alfred J. Andrea. This book was released on 2021-03-24. Sanctified Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This rich and engaging book looks at instances of sanctified violence, the holy wars related to religion. It covers it all, from ancient to present day, including examples of warfare among Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists, as well as Christians, Jews and Muslims. It is a comprehensive and readable overview that provides a lively introduction to the subject of holy war in its broadest sense—as ‘sanctified violence’ in the service of a god or ideology. It is certain to be a useful companion in the classroom, and a boon to anyone fascinated by the dark attraction of religion and violence." —Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara Contents: Introduction: What Is Holy War? Chapter 1: Holy Wars in Mythic Time, Holy Wars as Metaphor, Holy Wars as RitualChapter 2: Holy Wars of Conquest in the Name of a DeityChapter 3: Holy Wars in Defense of the SacredChapter 4: Holy Wars in Anticipation of the Millennium Epilogue: Holy Wars Today and Tomorrow Also included are a description of the Critical Themes in World History series, Preface, index, and suggestions for further reading.
Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society
Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society write by Margo Kitts. This book was released on 2005-11-07. Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on oath-making narratives in the Iliad, through which it articulates a theory of ritualized violence.
Sanctified Aggression
Sanctified Aggression - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sanctified Aggression write by Jonneke Bekkenkamp. This book was released on 2004-06-01. Sanctified Aggression available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sanctified Aggression allies itself neither with the easy assumption that religions are by definition violent (and that only the secular/humanist/humane can offer a place of refuge from the ravages of religious authority) nor with the equally facile opposing view that religion expresses the "best" of human aspirations and that this best is always capable of diffusing or sublating the worst. Rather, it works from the premise that biblical, Jewish and Christian vocabularies continue to resonate, inspire and misfire. Some of the essays here explore how these vocabularies and symbols have influenced, or resonate with, events such as the massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland (1941), the Rwandan Massacre (1994), the tragedy at Columbine High School (1999) and the emergence of the "Phineas Priesthood" of white supremacists in North America. Other contributors examine how themes of martyrology, sacrifice and the messianic continue to circulate and mutate in literature, music, drama and film. The collective conclusion is that it is not possible to control biblical and religious violence by simply identifying canonical trouble-spots, then fencing them off with barbed wire or holding peace summits around them. Nor is it always possible to draw clear lines between problem and non-problem texts, witnesses and perpetrators, victims and aggressors or "reality" and "art".
Sacred Violence
Sacred Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Violence write by Brent D. Shaw. This book was released on 2011-09. Sacred Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Employs the sectarian battles which divided African Christians in late antiquity to explore the nature of violence in religious conflicts.
Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols
Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols write by Robert Gleave. This book was released on 2015-04-14. Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together some of the leading researchers on early Islamic history and thought to study the legitimacy of violence.
