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The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (Hardcover): Paul R Brass The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (Hardcover)
Paul R Brass
R2,454 Discovery Miles 24 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that it would seem to defy effective analysis. Paul R. Brass, one of the world's preeminent experts on South Asia, has tracked more than half a century's riots in the north Indian city of Aligarh. This book is the culmination of a lifetime's thinking about the dynamics of institutionalized intergroup violence in northern India, covering the last three decades of British rule as well as the entire post-Independence history of Aligarh. Brass exposes the mechanisms by which endemic communal violence is deliberately provoked and sustained. He convincingly implicates the police, criminal elements, members of Aligarh's business community, and many of its leading political actors in the continuous effort to "produce" communal violence. Much like a theatrical production, specific roles are played, with phases for rehearsal, staging, and interpretation. In this way, riots become key historical markers in the struggle for political, economic, and social dominance of one community over another. In the course of demonstrating how riots have been produced in Aligarh, Brass offers a compelling argument for abandoning or refining a number of widely held views about the supposed causes of communal violence, not just in India but throughout the rest of the world. An important addition to the literature on Indian and South Asian politics, this book is also an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the interplay of nationalism, ethnicity, religion, and collective violence, wherever it occurs.

Holy War - The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Karen Armstrong Holy War - The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Karen Armstrong
R543 R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Save R29 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God, skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.

In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of Europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend. In reality the Crusades were a series of rabidly savage conflicts in the name of piety. And, as Armstrong demonstrates in this fascinating book, their legacy of religious violence continues today in the Middle East, where the age-old conflict of Christians, Jews, and Muslims persists.

The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution (Paperback): Alice Dailey The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution (Paperback)
Alice Dailey
R1,234 R879 Discovery Miles 8 790 Save R355 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Traditionally, Christian martyrdom is a repetition of the story of Christ's suffering and death: the more closely the victim replicates the Christological model, the more legible the martyrdom. But if the textual construction of martyrdom depends on the rehearsal of a paradigmatic story, how do we reconcile the broad range of individuals, beliefs, and persecutions seeking justification by claims of martyrdom? Observing how martyrdom is constituted through the interplay of historical event and literary form, Alice Dailey explores the development of English martyr literature through the period of intense religious controversy from the heresy executions of Queen Mary to the regicide of 1649. Through close study of texts ranging from late medieval passion drama and hagiography to John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, martyrologies of the Counter-Reformation, Charles I's Eikon Basilike, and John Milton's Eikonoklastes, The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution traces the shifting constructions of the martyr figure across Reformation England. By putting history and literary form in dialogue, Dailey describes not only the reformation of one of the oldest, most influential genres of the Christian West but a revolution in the very concept of martyrdom. In late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, she argues, martyrdom develops from medieval notions of strict typological repetition into Charles I's defense of individual conscience-an abstract, figurative form of martyrdom that survives into modernity. Far from static or purely formulaic, martyrology emerges in Dailey's study as a deeply nuanced genre that discloses the mutually constitutive relationship between the lives we live and the stories we tell.

Salafism in Yemen - Transnationalism and Religious Identity (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition): Laurent Bonnefoy Salafism in Yemen - Transnationalism and Religious Identity (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)
Laurent Bonnefoy
R1,016 Discovery Miles 10 160 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Over the last decade or so Salafism has become one of the West's new political bogey-men. Many regard the movement as the antechamber of violent groups such as al-Qaeda, and as the by-product of a centralized foreign-policy platform shaped by so-called Saudi interests. Based on extensive research conducted throughout Yemen between 2001 and 2009, and particularly in the southern province of Y?fi', this book offers an original approach to Salafism and draws a necessary counter-narrative that takes into account the dynamics of the Salafi movement as well as its relationship to its evolving environment, either local, regional and international.

Having studied over a hundred recorded sermons and conferences and dozens of books, and carried out interviews with numerous clerics, intellectuals and activists, Laurent Bonnefoy focuses on the allegedly apolitical Salafi doctrine promoted by the renowned Yemeni Salafi figure, Muqbil al-Wadi'i, who died in 2001. Building on IR theory and political sociology, he references the everyday practices of al-Wadi'i's dedicated followers, their rivalries as well as their own evolving trajectories. He demonstrates that, rather than resulting from specifically planned policies, Yemeni Salafism has, since the early 1980s, evolved through a series of spontaneous, grassroots mechanisms, many of which are shaped by transnational flows, that embed this movement in the complex Yemeni context.

Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation - Foreword by Desmond Tutu and Gustavo Gutierrez (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition): Marc... Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation - Foreword by Desmond Tutu and Gustavo Gutierrez (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Marc H. Ellis
R1,671 Discovery Miles 16 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Turmoil still grips the Middle East, and fear can still paralyze post-9/11 America. The comforts and challenges of this book are thus as timely as when it was first published in 1987. With new reflections on the future of Judaism and Israel, Ellis underscores the enduring problem of justice. Ellis' use of liberation theology to make connections between the Holocaust and contemporary communities from the Third World reminds both Jews and oppressed Christians that they share common ground in the experiences of abandonment, suffering, and death. The connections also reveal that Jews and Christians share a common cause in the battle against idolatry - represented now by obsessions for personal affluence, national security, and ethnic survival. According to Ellis, Jews and Christians must never allow the reality of anti-Semitism to become an excuse for evading solidarity with the oppressed peoples - be they African, Asian, Latin American or, especially, Palestinian.

The Gods of War - Is Religion The Primary Cause Of Violent Conflict? (Paperback): Meic Pearse The Gods of War - Is Religion The Primary Cause Of Violent Conflict? (Paperback)
Meic Pearse
R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Does religion cause war? It is often claimed that religion is responsible for more wars, more global conflicts and more deaths than any other factor. After all, the world has seen its share of crusades, inquisitions and jihads. Enlightened, modern people assume that if we could only discard primitive religious belief, the world would be a better place. Alas, the picture is not quite so simple. "Indeed," writes Meic Pearse, "there is only one thing that bears a heavier responsibility than religion as a principal cause of war. And that is, of course, irreligion." In this provocative book, historian Meic Pearse debunks the common misconception that religion causes war. He argues that while religion is often a significant generator of armed conflict both in the past and in the present, the two principal causes of human warfare are in fact culture and greed for territory, resources or power. Since culture and greed often clothe themselves in religion, wars fought for culture often appear to be fought for religion. With keen analysis of global history and current events, Pearse shows how irreligion has produced far bloodier wars than religion, and how global secularism itself does violence to religion and traditional cultures. Ultimately, throughout history warfare has been waged over the shape of society itself. A crisis in meaning leads people to fight for what they fear may be lost. For a world weary of war, Pearse points beyond both cultural and secular metanarratives to an alternative hope.

Modest Claims - Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition (Hardcover, New): Adam Seligman Modest Claims - Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition (Hardcover, New)
Adam Seligman
R2,279 R1,813 Discovery Miles 18 130 Save R466 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many of the critical political issues of our time--from the 1992-1995 Balkan Wars to the continuing crisis in the Middle East to the role of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe--revolve around issues of religion and tolerance. The predominant approach to these concerns is to espouse the doctrines of liberal humanistic virtue. These doctrines, however, fail to resonate in communities that maintain more traditional religious definitions of self and society. Modest Claims, which features essays by Seligman and dialogues between scholars representing the three monotheistic faiths, provides the beginnings of a very different set of arguments on tolerance and tradition. In so doing it seeks to uncover the sources of toleration and pluralism that exist within the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Most contemporary approaches leave these sources largely unexplored and often marginalize them in current public debates and social agendas. Seligman and his dialogue partners seek to engage traditional understandings to uncover internal components that make dialogue between different religions and cultures possible. Espousing the idea of translation as a metaphor for the tolerant act, Modest Claims takes difference seriously as an aspect of existence that can be neither trivialized nor ignored. It explores and develops specifically religious arguments for tolerance and acceptance of others, as well as new strategies for understanding difference that are not rooted in individualist worldviews. This important and timely book breathes new life into the search for peace and toleration in an increasingly fractured world.

Jews and Christians in Twelfth-Century Europe (Hardcover, New): Michael A. Signer Jews and Christians in Twelfth-Century Europe (Hardcover, New)
Michael A. Signer; Edited by John Van Engen
R3,277 Discovery Miles 32 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The scope of this collection of original essays covers the years 1050 to 1215, but it really begins in the summer of 1096, when marauding crusaders attacked Jewish communities in three Rhineland cities. These violent episodes disrupted what had been a fairly peaceful history of coexistence between Jews and Christians for more than two centuries. Although the two groups inhabited fundamentally different religious universes, Jews and Christians lived in the same towns, on the same streets, and pursued their lives with minimal mutual interference and often with considerable cooperation. The events of 1096 destroyed that status quo. Relations between the two communities deteriorated, and the Jewish communities suffered as a result.

The contributors' careful analyses of people, events, and texts provide a balanced perspective on the fate of twelfth-century Jewish communities. They reveal that there is considerable evidence that old routines and interactions between Christians and Jews persisted throughout this period. From the perspective of the editors and contributors, this sense of complementarity, of interaction or action and reaction, needs to better inform the medieval story. The essays in this volume therefore intentionally highlight areas of common or parallel activity: in vernacular literature, in biblical exegesis, in piety and mysticism, in the social context of conversion, in relations with prelates and monarchs, in coping in a time of change, renewal, and upheaval. Most importantly, the editors and contributors insist on integrating both Jewish and Christian perspectives into the larger history of a very complex and increasingly urban twelfth-century Europe.

Mujer !guarde Silencio! - !no Mas Silencio ! (Spanish, Paperback): Kathy Benthall Mujer !guarde Silencio! - !no Mas Silencio ! (Spanish, Paperback)
Kathy Benthall
R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mutual Radicalization - How Groups and Nations Drive Each Other to Extremes (Paperback): Fathali M. Moghaddam Mutual Radicalization - How Groups and Nations Drive Each Other to Extremes (Paperback)
Fathali M. Moghaddam
R1,345 Discovery Miles 13 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Radicalization has become a serious global problem. Groups and nations are increasingly embroiled in escalating conflicts with one another that are defined by pathological hatred and ideological polarization, with devastating consequences including terrorism and war. Social psychologist Fathali M. Moghaddam calls this process mutual radicalization. In this groundbreaking book, he explores its causes and potential solutions. Drawing from well-established psychological principles, Moghaddam presents a dynamic, cyclical three-stage model of mutual radicalization that explains how groups gather under extremist ideologies, establish rigid norms under authoritarian leadership, and develop antagonistic worldviews that exaggerate the threats posed by each other. This process leads to intensifying aggressive actions that can even reach the point of mutual destruction. Moghaddam applies his model to ten real-world case studies of mutual radicalization that focus on three main areas: the conflict between Islamist radicals and extreme nationalists in the West; nations that are mired in longstanding hostilities, including North Korea and South Korea; and the increasingly toxic atmosphere in American politics. Moghaddam also offers practical solutions for achieving deradicalization and highlights historical successes, such as German reunification.

Migration, Jihad, and Muslim Authority in West Africa - The Futanke Colonies in Karta (Hardcover): John H Hanson Migration, Jihad, and Muslim Authority in West Africa - The Futanke Colonies in Karta (Hardcover)
John H Hanson
R1,061 Discovery Miles 10 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"The book is a readable, terse, theoretically developed treatment of an important episode in African history." Journal of African History

"It is original and authoritative, certainly the best book we have on the heritage of Umar s conquests." African History

..". lucid analysis of a changing jihad society. This study enlarges understanding not only of the Umarian empire but also of the jihad movements generally." Choice

John Hanson s thoroughly researched study revises late-19th-century colonialist assumptions about a West African Muslim social movement. Using indigenous Arabic manuscripts, travel narratives, and oral materials, Hanson assesses the meaning of a series of revolts against Islamic authority."

Islamism and Intelligence in South Asia - Militancy, Politics and Security (Hardcover): Prem Mahadevan Islamism and Intelligence in South Asia - Militancy, Politics and Security (Hardcover)
Prem Mahadevan
R3,182 Discovery Miles 31 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

State sponsorship of terrorism is a complex and important topic in today's international affairs - and especially pertinent in the regional politics of the Middle East and South Asia, where Pakistan has long been a flashpoint of Islamist politics and terrorism. In Islamism and Intelligence in South Asia, Prem Mahadevan demonstrates how over several decades, radical Islamists, sometimes with the tacit support of parts of the military establishment, have weakened democratic governance in Pakistan and acquired progressively larger influence over policy-making. Mahadevan traces this history back to the anti-colonial Deobandi movement, which was born out of the post-partition political atmosphere and a rediscovery of the thinking of Ibn Taymiyyah, and partially ennobled the idea of `jihad' in South Asia as a righteous war against foreign oppression. Using Pakistani media and academic sources for the bulk of its raw data, and reinforcing this with scholarly analysis from Western commentators, the book tracks Pakistan's trajectory towards a `soft' Islamic revolution. Envisioned by the country's intelligence community as a solution to chronic governance failures, these narratives called for a re-orientation away from South Asia and towards the Middle East. In the process, Pakistan has become a sanctuary for Arab jihadist groups, such as Al-Qaeda, who had no previous ethnic or linguistic connection with South Asia. Most alarmingly, official discourse on terrorism has been partly silenced by the military-intelligence complex. The result is a slow drift towards extremism and possible legitimation of internationally proscribed terrorist organizations in Pakistan's electoral politics.

Foreigners and Their Food - Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law (Paperback): David M. Freidenreich Foreigners and Their Food - Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law (Paperback)
David M. Freidenreich
R1,124 Discovery Miles 11 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize us" and them" through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders. David M. Freidenreich analyzes the significance of food to religious formation, elucidating the ways ancient and medieval scholars use food restrictions to think about the other." Freidenreich illuminates the subtly different ways Jews, Christians, and Muslims perceive themselves, and he demonstrates how these distinctive self-conceptions shape ideas about religious foreigners and communal boundaries. This work, the first to analyze change over time across the legal literatures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, makes pathbreaking contributions to the history of interreligious intolerance and to the comparative study of religion.

The Clergy and the Modern Middle East - Shi'i Political Activism in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon (Paperback): Mohammad R.... The Clergy and the Modern Middle East - Shi'i Political Activism in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon (Paperback)
Mohammad R. Kalantari
R1,261 Discovery Miles 12 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Shi'i clergy are amongst the most influential political players in the Middle East. For decades, scholars and observers have tried to understand the balance of power between, Shi'i 'quietism' and 'activism'. The book is based on exclusive interviews with high-profile Shi'i clerics in order to reveal how the Shi'i clerical elite perceives its role and engages in politics today. The book focuses on three ground-breaking events in the modern Middle East: the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the 2003 Iraq War, and the 2006 July war in Lebanon. By examining the nature and evolution of a Shi'i clerical network the book finds that, far from there being strategic differences between 'quitest' and 'activist' clerics, Shi'i mujtahid statesmen matured, from 1979 in Iran to 2003 Iraq, by way of a pragmatism which led to a strong form of transnational and associated whole in Lebanon in 2006. In doing so, the book breaks down the established, and misleading, dichotomisation of the Shi'i clergy into 'quietists' and 'activists' and discovers that the decision of Shi'i clerical elites to become politically active or to stay out of politics are attributable to their ability to adapt to their political environments.

Darfoer avvisade jag min fars religion - En Debatt Mellan Kristier Och Muslim (Swedish, Paperback): Ssemugoma Evangelist Ibn... Darfoer avvisade jag min fars religion - En Debatt Mellan Kristier Och Muslim (Swedish, Paperback)
Ssemugoma Evangelist Ibn Abubakar
R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Waarom Ik de Religie Van Mijn Vader Weigerde - Categorisch Beantwoorden Islam (Dutch, Paperback): Ssemugoma Evangelist Ibn... Waarom Ik de Religie Van Mijn Vader Weigerde - Categorisch Beantwoorden Islam (Dutch, Paperback)
Ssemugoma Evangelist Ibn Abubakar
R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Perche Ho Rifiutato La Religione Di Mio Padre - Un Dibattito Tra La Dottrina Cristiana E La Dottrina Islamica (Italian,... Perche Ho Rifiutato La Religione Di Mio Padre - Un Dibattito Tra La Dottrina Cristiana E La Dottrina Islamica (Italian, Paperback)
Ssemugoma Evangelist Ibn Abubakar
R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Syria 2011-2013 - Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem (Hardcover): Azmi Bishara Syria 2011-2013 - Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem (Hardcover)
Azmi Bishara
R3,347 Discovery Miles 33 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Azmi Bishara's book on the Syrian Revolution is one of the most comprehensive and profound works on the subject published to date. Translated here into English for the first time, the study examines the complex roots of Syria's political and sectarian conflicts from the day revolution erupted on 15th March 2011 to its descent into civil war in the two years that followed. The book unearths and discusses the very first signs of protests from across Daraa, Hama, Aleppo, Damascus, Raqqa, Deir El Zour, Edlib and Homs, and it deals with Syria's ruralization process and the subsequent economic 'liberalization', which eventually led to the revolt against the Baath party. The work is based on high-level interviews, analysis of the country's socio-economic background, and examination of the Syrian regime's strategy and its political and media discourse. Syria's revolution is chronicled in two stages: the peaceful civil stage and the armed stage. Bishara's analysis first centres on the regime's strategy, unveiling despotism, massacres, kidnapping, sectarian tendencies, jihadist violence, the emergence of warlords, and the chaotic spread of arms. He then turns to the role of the opposition to narrate in detail the events that broke out and exactly how a peaceful protest turned into an armed struggle. The book provides a roadmap to how revolution broke out and is a comprehensive analysis of what drove those early events. Its publication brings renowned Arabic-language scholarship to the English-speaking world.

Histoire de l'etablissement du christianisme - Un traite de Voltaire contre l'intolerance et le fanatisme religieux... Histoire de l'etablissement du christianisme - Un traite de Voltaire contre l'intolerance et le fanatisme religieux (French, Paperback)
Voltaire
R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Our Hindu Rashtra - What It Is. How We Got Here (Paperback): Aakar Patel Our Hindu Rashtra - What It Is. How We Got Here (Paperback)
Aakar Patel
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Heiliger Krieg oder Friede auf Erden - Von der Gewalt in den Religionen (German, Paperback): Hermann-Josef Frisch Heiliger Krieg oder Friede auf Erden - Von der Gewalt in den Religionen (German, Paperback)
Hermann-Josef Frisch
R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Deadly Clerics - Blocked Ambition and the Paths to Jihad (Hardcover): Richard A. Nielsen Deadly Clerics - Blocked Ambition and the Paths to Jihad (Hardcover)
Richard A. Nielsen
R2,359 Discovery Miles 23 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Deadly Clerics explains why some Muslim clerics adopt the ideology of militant jihadism while most do not. The book explores multiple pathways of cleric radicalization and shows that the interplay of academic, religious, and political institutions has influenced the rise of modern jihadism through a mechanism of blocked ambition. As long as clerics' academic ambitions remain attainable, they are unlikely to espouse violent jihad. Clerics who are forced out of academia are more likely to turn to jihad for two reasons: jihadist ideas are attractive to those who see the system as turning against them, and preaching a jihad ideology can help these outsider clerics attract supporters and funds. The book draws on evidence from various sources, including large-scale statistical analysis of texts and network data obtained from the Internet, case studies of clerics' lives, and ethnographic participant observations at sites in Cairo, Egypt.

Cuentos Teologicos - Reimaginar desde el Vientre (Spanish, Paperback): Angel Manzo Montesdeoca Cuentos Teologicos - Reimaginar desde el Vientre (Spanish, Paperback)
Angel Manzo Montesdeoca
R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
El Libro de los Martires de Jesus - (Persecucion, Dolor, Esperanza, Injusticia, Fidelidad y Exceso de Poder) (Spanish, Large... El Libro de los Martires de Jesus - (Persecucion, Dolor, Esperanza, Injusticia, Fidelidad y Exceso de Poder) (Spanish, Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
John Foxe
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Warum Ich Die Religion Meines Vaters Abgewiesen Habe - Eine Debatte Zwischen Der Christlichen Doktrine Und Der Islamischen... Warum Ich Die Religion Meines Vaters Abgewiesen Habe - Eine Debatte Zwischen Der Christlichen Doktrine Und Der Islamischen Doktrine (German, Paperback)
Ssemugoma Evangelist Ibn Abubaker
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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