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The Just War and Jihad - Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Hardcover)
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The Just War and Jihad - Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Hardcover)
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In the long history of the monotheistic tradition, violence - often
bloody with warfare - have not just been occasional but defining
activities. Since 9/11, sociologists, religious historians,
philosophers and anthropologists have examined the question of the
roots of religious violence in new ways, and with surprising
results. In November 2004, the Committee for the Scientific
Examination of Religion brought together leading theorists at
Cornell University to explore the question whether religions are
viral forms of a general cultural tendency to violent action. Do
religions, and especially the Abrahamic tradition, encourage
violence in the imagery of their sacred writings, in their
theology, and their tendency to see the world as a cosmos divided
between powers of good and forces of evil? Is such violence a
historical condition affecting all religious movements, or are some
religions more prone to violence than others?;The papers collected
in this volume represent the independent and considered thinking of
internationally known scholars from a variety of disciplines
concerning the relationship between religion and violence, with
special reference to the theories of 'just war' and 'jihad',
technical terms that arise in connection with the theology of early
medieval Christianity and early Islam, respectively.
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