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Throughout its first three centuries, the growing Christian
religion was subjected not only to official persecution but to the
attacks of pagan intellectuals, who looked upon the new sect as a
band of fanatics bent on worldwide domination even as they
professed to despise the things of this world. Prominent among
these pagan critics was Porphyry of Tyre (ca. 232-ca. 305 C.E.),
scholar, philosopher, and student of religions. His book Against
the Christians (Kata Christianon), was condemned to be burned by
the imperial Church in 448. It survives only in fragments preserved
by the cleric and teacher Macarius Magnes.
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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