|
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict > General
|
Mob Rule
(Paperback)
Jake Jacobs
|
R483
R401
Discovery Miles 4 010
Save R82 (17%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
|
Breathe Again
(Paperback)
Trena D. Stephenson; Foreword by Yolanda Powell
|
R533
Discovery Miles 5 330
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
Concerns about CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear)
weapons have featured prominently in both political debates and
media reporting about the ongoing threat from al Qaeda since 9/11.
This book provides a chronological account of al Qaeda's efforts to
acquire a CBRN weapon capability, and the evolution of the al Qaeda
leadership's approach to actually using CBRN weapons, set against
the context of the politicisation of the threat of CBRN terrorism
in US security debates. Ben Cole explores how the inherently
political nature of terrorist CBRN threats has helped to shape al
Qaeda's approach to CBRN weapons, and shows how the heightened
political sensitivities surrounding the threat have enabled some
governments to manipulate it in order to generate domestic and
international support for controversial policies, particularly the
2003 invasion of Iraq. He assesses the relative success of the al
Qaeda leadership's political approach to CBRN weapons, together
with the relative success of efforts by the US, UK and Russian
governments to exploit the al Qaeda CBRN threat for their wider
political purposes. Shedding new light on al Qaeda's tactics and
strategy, this book will be essential reading for scholars of
terrorism and extremism studies.
Why does religion inspire hatred? Why do people in one religion
sometimes hate people of another religion, and also why do some
religions inspire hatred from others? This book shows how scholarly
studies of prejudice, identity formation, and genocide studies can
shed light on global examples of religious hatred. The book is
divided into four parts, focusing respectively on: theories of
prejudice and violence; historical developments of antisemitism,
Islamophobia, and race; contemporary Western antisemitism and
Islamophobia; and, prejudices beyond the West in the Islamic,
Buddhist, and Hindu traditions. Each part ends with a special focus
section. Key features include: - A compelling synthesis of theories
of prejudice, identity, and hatred to explain Islamophobia and
antisemitism. - An innovative theory of human violence and genocide
which explains the link to prejudice. - Case studies of both
Western antisemitism and Islamophobia in history and today,
alongside global studies of Islamic antisemitism and Hindu and
Buddhist Islamophobia - Integrates discussion of race and
racialisation as aspects of Islamophobic and antisemitic prejudice
in relation to their framing in religious discourses. - Accessible
for general readers and students, it can be employed as a textbook
for students or read with benefit by scholars for its novel
synthesis and theories. The book focuses on antisemitism and
Islamophobia, both in the West and beyond, including examples of
prejudices and hatred in the Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist
traditions. Drawing on examples from Europe, North America, MENA,
South and Southeast Asia, and Africa, Paul Hedges points to common
patterns, while identifying the specifics of local context.
Religious Hatred is an essential guide for understanding the
historical origins of religious hatred, the manifestations of this
hatred across diverse religious and cultural contexts, and the
strategies employed by activists and peacemakers to overcome this
hatred.
In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against
the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a
genocide. More than seven hundred thousand civilians fled to
Bangladesh in what became the most concentrated flight of refugees
since the Rwanda genocide of 1994. The warning signs of impending
catastrophe that had built over years were downplayed by Western
backers of the political transition, and only when the exodus began
did the world finally come to acknowledge a catastrophe that had
been long in the making. In this updated edition of the book that
foreshadowed a genocide, Francis Wade explores how the manipulation
of identities by an anxious ruling elite laid the foundations for
mass violence. It asks: who gets to define a nation? How can
democratic rights be weaponised against a minority? And why, at a
time when the majority of citizens in Myanmar had begun to
experience freedoms unseen for half a century, did much-lauded
civilian leaders like Aung San Suu Kyi become complicit in the most
heinous of crimes?
In Resilient Communities, Jana Krause focuses on civilian agency
and mobilization 'from below' and explains violence and
non-violence in communal wars. Drawing on extensive field research
on ethno-religious conflicts in Ambon/Maluku Province in eastern
Indonesia and Jos/Plateau State in central Nigeria, this book shows
how civilians responded to local conflict dynamics very
differently, evading, supporting, or collectively resisting armed
groups. Combining evidence collected from more than 200 interviews
with residents, community leaders, and former fighters, local
scholarly work (in Indonesian), and local newspaper-based event
data analysis, this book explains civilian mobilization, militia
formation, and conflict escalation. The book's comparison of
vulnerable mixed communities and (un)successful prevention efforts
demonstrates how under courageous leadership resilient communities
can emerge that adapt to changing conflict zones and collectively
prevent killings. By developing the concepts of communal war and
social resilience, Krause extends our understanding of local
violence, (non-)escalation, and implications for prevention.
Though many scholars and commentators have predicted the death of
religion, the world is more religious today than ever before. And
yet, despite the persistence of religion, it remains a woefully
understudied phenomenon. With Objective Religion, Baylor University
Press and Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion have combined
forces to gather select articles from the Interdisciplinary Journal
of Research on Religion that not only highlight the journal's
wide-ranging and diverse scope, but also advance the field through
a careful arrangement of topics with ongoing relevance, all treated
with scientific objectivity and the respect warranted by matters of
faith. This multivolume project seeks to advance our understanding
of religion and spirituality in general as well as particular
religious beliefs and practices. The volume thereby serves as a
catalyst for future studies of religion from diverse disciplines
and fields of inquiry including sociology, psychology, political
science, demography, economics, philosophy, ethics, history,
medicine, population health, epidemiology, and theology. The
articles in this volume, Competition, Tension, and Perseverance,
document the pervasiveness of religion and demonstrate the complex
ways faith, spirituality, and religious matters are consequential
for individuals as well as societies across the world. Together
these essays demonstrate the resilience of religion.
Though many scholars and commentators have predicted the death of
religion, the world is more religious today than ever before. And
yet, despite the persistence of religion, it remains a woefully
understudied phenomenon. With Objective Religion, Baylor University
Press and Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion have combined
forces to gather select articles from the Interdisciplinary Journal
of Research on Religion that not only highlight the journal's
wide-ranging and diverse scope, but also advance the field through
a careful arrangement of topics with ongoing relevance, all treated
with scientific objectivity and the respect warranted by matters of
faith. This multivolume project seeks to advance our understanding
of religion and spirituality in general as well as particular
religious beliefs and practices. The volume thereby serves as a
catalyst for future studies of religion from diverse disciplines
and fields of inquiry including sociology, psychology, political
science, demography, economics, philosophy, ethics, history,
medicine, population health, epidemiology, and theology. The
articles in this volume, Competition, Tension, and Perseverance,
document the pervasiveness of religion and demonstrate the complex
ways faith, spirituality, and religious matters are consequential
for individuals as well as societies across the world. Together
these essays demonstrate the resilience of religion.
|
|