The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence, The

Copyright © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence, The

Editor(s): Andrew R. Murphy

Published Online: 20 APR 2011 09:52AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405191319

Online ISBN: 9781444395747

DOI: 10.1002/9781444395747

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The timely Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who provide a coherent state of the art overview of the complex relationships between religion and violence.

  • This companion tackles one of the most important topics in the field of Religion in the twenty-first century, pulling together a unique collection of cutting-edge work
  • A focused collection of high-quality scholarship provides readers with a state-of-the-art account of the latest work in this field
  • The contributors are broad-ranging, international, and interdisciplinary, and include historians, political scientists, religious studies scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, theologians, scholars of women's and gender studies and communication

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xvi)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–4)

      Andrew R. Murphy

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

    1. Chapter 1

      Religion and Violence: Coming to Terms with Terms (pages 5–22)

      John D. Carlson

    2. Chapter 2

      The Myth of Religious Violence (pages 23–33)

      William T. Cavanaugh

  4. Part II: Disciplinary Perspectives

    1. Chapter 3

      Religion and Violence: An Economic Approach (pages 35–49)

      Anthony Gill

    2. Chapter 4

      Religion, Identity, and Violence: Some Theoretical Reflections (pages 50–65)

      Aziz Esmail

    3. Chapter 5

      Anthropological Reflections on Religion and Violence (pages 66–75)

      Bettina E. Schmidt

    4. Chapter 6

      Spiritual Devotion and Self-Annihilation: An Evolutionary Perspective (pages 76–88)

      Ariel Glucklich

    5. Chapter 7

      The Sociology of Religious Violence (pages 89–98)

      Charles Selengut

    6. Chapter 8

      Religion, Law, and Violence (pages 99–111)

      David E. Guinn

    7. Chapter 9

      Mediating Religious Violence (pages 112–124)

      Jolyon Mitchell

    8. Chapter 10

      Gender in the Production of Religious and Secular Violence (pages 125–136)

      Janet R. Jakobsen

    9. Chapter 11

      Explaining Religious Violence: Retrospects and Prospects (pages 137–146)

      Hector Avalos

  5. Part III: Traditions and Movements, Concepts and Themes

    1. Chapter 12

      Christianity and Violence (pages 147–162)

      Jonathan Ebel

    2. Chapter 13

      Genesis 34 and the Legacies of Biblical Violence (pages 163–182)

      Elliott Horowitz

    3. Chapter 14

      Islam and Violence (pages 183–195)

      Beverley Milton-Edwards

    4. Chapter 15

      Religion and Violence in Hindu Traditions (pages 196–210)

      Jeffery D. Long

    5. Chapter 16

      Buddhism and Symbolic Violence (pages 211–226)

      Bernard Faure

    6. Chapter 17

      Religion, Violence, and Shintō (pages 227–236)

      Walter A. Skya

    7. Chapter 18

      Confucian Ethical Action and the Boundaries of Peace and War (pages 237–248)

      Don J. Wyatt

    8. Chapter 19

      Violence in Chinese Religious Culture (pages 249–262)

      Barend J. ter Haar

    9. Chapter 20

      The Dialectic of Violence in Jainism (pages 263–270)

      Christopher Key Chapple

    10. Chapter 21

      Just War and Jihad of the Sword (pages 271–281)

      James Turner Johnson

    11. Chapter 22

      Jihad and Martyrdom in Classical and Contemporary Islam (pages 282–292)

      David Cook

    12. Chapter 23

      Sacred Terror: The Psychology of Contemporary Religious Terrorism (pages 293–303)

      James W. Jones

    13. Chapter 24

      The Transformation of Failure and the Spiritualization of Violence (pages 304–319)

      Ian Reader

    14. Chapter 25

      Sacrifice and Violence (pages 320–330)

      Kathryn McClymond

    15. Chapter 26

      History, Humiliation, and Religious Violence (pages 331–342)

      Ellen Posman

    16. Chapter 27

      Reconceptualizing Totalitarianism and Fascism (pages 343–353)

      Robert Imre

  6. Part IV: Case Studies: Religion and Violence, Past and Present

    1. Chapter 28

      Enduring the Sacred Scars of Slavery (pages 355–366)

      Yolanda Pierce

    2. Chapter 29

      South Asia: From Colonial Categories to a Crisis of Faith? (pages 367–378)

      Yasmin Khan

    3. Chapter 30

      Gender, Religion, and Violence during the Holocaust (pages 379–388)

      Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

    4. Chapter 31

      Women in the Śāstric Tradition: Colonialism, Law, and Violence (pages 389–405)

      Nandini Bhattacharyya-Panda

    5. Chapter 32

      Biblical Metaphors for Interventionism in the Spanish-American War (pages 406–416)

      Matthew McCullough

    6. Chapter 33

      Sudan: Religion and Conflict (pages 417–423)

      Jok Madut Jok

    7. Chapter 34

      The Battle for Australia: Salvation and Conquest (pages 424–438)

      Marion Maddox

    8. Chapter 35

      Fundamentalist Violence and Women: Iran, Afghanistan, and Algeria (pages 439–450)

      Valentine M. Moghadam

    9. Chapter 36

      Anti-Jewish Violence in Late Imperial Russia (pages 451–460)

      Robert Weinberg

    10. Chapter 37

      Religion, Pluralism, and Conflicts in the Pacific Islands (pages 461–472)

      Yannick Fer

    11. Chapter 38

      Ritual Violence and Violent Ritual in Chinese Popular Religion (pages 473–484)

      Avron Boretz

    12. Chapter 39

      The Politics of Protestant Violence: Abolitionists and Anti-Abortionists (pages 485–497)

      Joel Olson

    13. Chapter 40

      Colonialism and Civil War: Religion and Violence in East Africa (pages 498–510)

      Ben Jones

    14. Chapter 41

      Rethinking Religion and Violence in the Middle East (pages 511–523)

      Jeroen Gunning

    15. Chapter 42

      Cromwell, Mather, and the Rhetoric of Puritan Violence (pages 524–537)

      Andrew R. Murphy

  7. Part V: Future Prospects: Beyond Violence?

    1. Chapter 43

      Liberation Theology and the Spiral of Violence (pages 539–553)

      Thia Cooper

    2. Chapter 44

      Religion and Nonviolence in American History (pages 554–567)

      Ira Chernus

    3. Chapter 45

      Religious Peacebuilding (pages 568–593)

      María Pilar Aquino

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      Index (pages 594–615)

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