The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence

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2011
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The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence offers a state-of-the-art overview of this diverse subject. This timely volume brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who probe the complex relationship between religion and violence, now and in the past.

The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence offers a state-of-the-art overview of this diverse and crucially important subject. This timely volume brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who probe the complex relationship between religion and violence, now and in the past. Media accounts often announce the inherent connections between ‘fanatical’ believers and terroristic violence; but scholars have long recognized that such links are only one small part of a larger and more complex set of interactions. They argue that religious beliefs and practices are just as likely to provide resources for comfort and coping as to encourage violence and carnage.

The volume is divided into several major sections: Traditions and Movements, Disciplinary Perspectives, Concepts and Themes, and Case Studies, which explore specific incidences of both religious violence and instances where religion has contributed to the resistance of violence. A concluding section offers insights into the future direction of scholarship in the area. It also includes discussions of the ongoing importance of religion to terrorism, and religious competition and conflict in Africa. Each section offers high-quality, cutting-edge scholarship, as leading authorities seek to make sense of the problematic correlation between these two forces.

ANDREW R. MURPHY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His research focuses on the interconnections between religious and political thought and practice, most particularly in the Anglo-American tradition. He is the author of Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America (2001) and Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11 (2009); he is editor or co-editor of The Political Writings of William Penn (2002), Religion, Politics, and American Identity: New Directions, New Controversies (2006); and Literature, Culture, Tolerance (2009).

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction 1
Andrew R. Murphy

Part I “Religion” and “Violence”: Defining Terms, Defining Relationships 5

1 Religion and Violence: Coming to Terms with Terms 7
John D. Carlson

2 The Myth of Religious Violence 23
William T. Cavanaugh

Part II Disciplinary Perspectives 35

3 Religion and Violence: An Economic Approach 37
Anthony Gill

4 Religion, Identity, and Violence: Some Theoretical Reflections 50
Aziz Esmail

5 Anthropological Reflections on Religion and Violence 66
Bettina E. Schmidt

6 Spiritual Devotion and Self-Annihilation: An Evolutionary Perspective 76
Ariel Glucklich

7 The Sociology of Religious Violence 89
Charles Selengut

8 Religion, Law, and Violence 99
David E. Guinn

9 Mediating Religious Violence 112
Jolyon Mitchell

10 Gender in the Production of Religious and Secular Violence 125
Janet R. Jakobsen

11 Explaining Religious Violence: Retrospects and Prospects 137
Hector Avalos

Part III Traditions and Movements, Concepts and Themes 147

12 Christianity and Violence 149
Jonathan Ebel

13 Genesis 34 and the Legacies of Biblical Violence 163
Elliott Horowitz

14 Islam and Violence 183
Beverley Milton-Edwards

15 Religion and Violence in Hindu Traditions 196
Jeffery D. Long

16 Buddhism and Symbolic Violence 211
Bernard Faure

17 Religion, Violence, and Shintō 227
Walter A. Skya

18 Confucian Ethical Action and the Boundaries of Peace and War 237
Don J. Wyatt

19 Violence in Chinese Religious Culture 249
Barend J. ter Haar

20 The Dialectic of Violence in Jainism 263
Christopher Key Chapple

21 Just War and Jihad of the Sword 271
James Turner Johnson

22 Jihad and Martyrdom in Classical and Contemporary Islam 282
David Cook

23 Sacred Terror: The Psychology of Contemporary Religious Terrorism 293
James W. Jones

24 The Transformation of Failure and the Spiritualization of Violence 304
Ian Reader

25 Sacrifice and Violence 320
Kathryn McClymond

26 History, Humiliation, and Religious Violence 331
Ellen Posman

27 Reconceptualizing Totalitarianism and Fascism 343
Robert Imre

Part IV Case Studies: Religion and Violence, Past and Present 355

28 Enduring the Sacred Scars of Slavery 357
Yolanda Pierce

29 South Asia: From Colonial Categories to a Crisis of Faith? 367
Yasmin Khan

30 Gender, Religion, and Violence during the Holocaust 379
Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

31 Women in the Śāstric Tradition: Colonialism, Law, and Violence 389
Nandini Bhattacharyya-Panda

32 Biblical Metaphors for Interventionism in the Spanish-American War 406
Matthew McCullough

33 Sudan: Religion and Conflict 417
Jok Madut Jok

34 The Battle for Australia: Salvation and Conquest 424
Marion Maddox

35 Fundamentalist Violence and Women: Iran, Afghanistan, and Algeria 439
Valentine M. Moghadam

36 Anti-Jewish Violence in Late Imperial Russia 451
Robert Weinberg

37 Religion, Pluralism, and Conflicts in the Pacific Islands 461
Yannick Fer

38 Ritual Violence and Violent Ritual in Chinese Popular Religion 473
Avron Boretz

39 The Politics of Protestant Violence: Abolitionists and Anti-Abortionists 485
Joel Olson

40 Colonialism and Civil War: Religion and Violence in East Africa 498
Ben Jones

41 Rethinking Religion and Violence in the Middle East 511
Jeroen Gunning

42 Cromwell, Mather, and the Rhetoric of Puritan Violence 524
Andrew R. Murphy

Part V Future Prospects: Beyond Violence? 539

43 Liberation Theology and the Spiral of Violence 541
Thia Cooper

44 Religion and Nonviolence in American History 554
Ira Chernus

45 Religious Peacebuilding 568
María Pilar Aquino

Index 594

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.4.2011
Reihe/Serie	Blackwell Companions to Religion
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1288 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Schlagworte	Gewalt • Religion
ISBN-10	1-4051-9131-7 / 1405191317
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-9131-9 / 9781405191319
Zustand	Neuware