Belief and Bloodshed: Religion and Violence Across Time and TraditionJames K. Wellman Rowman & Littlefield, 2007 - 271 síður Intended for students as well as scholars of religion and violence, Belief and Bloodshed discusses how the relationship between religion and violence is not unique to a post-9/11 world_it has existed throughout all of recorded history and culture. The book makes clear the complex interactions between religion, violence, and politics to show that religion as always innocent or always evil is misguided, and that rationalizations by religion for political power and violence are not new. Chronologically organized, the book shows religiously motivated violence across a variety of historical periods and cultures, moving from the ancient to medieval to the modern world, ending with an essay comparing the speeches of an ancient king to the speeches of the current U.S. President. |
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... period invokes the dualism of good and evil ; the calls for divine in- tervention and the promises of salvation are similar past and present . Ra- tionalizations by religion for political power and violence are not new . Moreover , the ...
... period invokes the dualism of good and evil ; the calls for divine in- tervention and the promises of salvation are similar past and present . Ra- tionalizations by religion for political power and violence are not new . Moreover , the ...
Síða 75
... period , roughly 1527 to 1545 , An- abaptism appears to have become markedly more aggressive in its rela- tions to state authority and even other religious groups . Perhaps this is unsurprising when one considers the events at Speyer in ...
... period , roughly 1527 to 1545 , An- abaptism appears to have become markedly more aggressive in its rela- tions to state authority and even other religious groups . Perhaps this is unsurprising when one considers the events at Speyer in ...
Síða 148
... period between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries ( Sirisena 1978 ; Gombrich 1988 ; Tambiah 1976 ) . Dur- ing this period , rulers of Buddhist kingdoms provided an example for all laypersons in their monetary support for the Sangha ...
... period between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries ( Sirisena 1978 ; Gombrich 1988 ; Tambiah 1976 ) . Dur- ing this period , rulers of Buddhist kingdoms provided an example for all laypersons in their monetary support for the Sangha ...
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Religion and Violence Past Present and Future | 1 |
Divine Violence in the Ancient Near East | 13 |
Ritual Rhetoric | 29 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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Belief and Bloodshed: Religion and Violence Across Time and Tradition James K. Wellman Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2007 |
Belief and Bloodshed: Religion and Violence across Time and Tradition James K. Wellman Jr. Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2007 |
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