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Introduction | |
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Understanding Violence | |
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What Is Violence? | |
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What Makes Violence Possible-and Likely? | |
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A Model of Expanding Violence | |
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Conclusion: Hurting without Feeling Bad-or Feeling Anything at All | |
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Understanding Religion | |
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What Is Religion? | |
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Populating the Religious Domain: Beings, Forces, and "Types" of Religion | |
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"Local" versus "World" Religions | |
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The Functions of Religion: Explanation, Control, and Legitimation | |
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Conclusion: Society, Supernatural Agents, and Violence | |
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Sacrifice | |
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What Is Sacrifice? | |
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The Diversity of Sacrifice | |
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Theories of Sacrifice: Girard and Burkert | |
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Toward a Better Understanding of Sacrifice | |
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Self-Injury | |
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Religious Self-Mortification: A Cry of Pain to the Spirits | |
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Asceticism: Religious Athletes | |
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Pain, but What Gain? | |
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Martyrdom: Death on Principle | |
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The Selfish Selflessness of Martyrs and Other Self-Mortifiers | |
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Persecution | |
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What Is Persecution? | |
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Religious Persecution in the Ancient/Non-Christian World | |
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Early Persecution of Christians | |
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Early Persecution by Christians | |
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Persecution in Islam | |
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The Persecution of Witches | |
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Persecution of Religion by Antireligion | |
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Persecution by the American Religious Right | |
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The Virtues of Persecuting-and Being Persecuted | |
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Ethnoreligious Conflict | |
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Ethnicity, Culture, Religion, and Conflict | |
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Ethnoreligious Conflict in the Modern World | |
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Why Ethnoreligious Conflict Now? | |
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War | |
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The Religion and the War in "Religious War" | |
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Religious War among the Ancient Hebrews | |
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"Holy War" in Christianity: The Crusades | |
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"Holy War" in Christianity: The European Religious Wars | |
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The Taiping "Rebellion" in China | |
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Islam and Jihad | |
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War in Hinduism | |
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"Fighting Orders": Saintly Soldiers | |
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The Mythology of War | |
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Homicide and Abuse | |
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When Is Religious Crime "Religious" and "Crime"? | |
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Religious Homicide | |
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Religious Abuse: Women and Spouses | |
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Religious Abuse of Children | |
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But Religion Is Supposed to Make People "Good" and "Moral" | |
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Religion and Nonviolence | |
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What Is Nonviolence? | |
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Religions of Nonviolence | |
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The Religious Contribution to Nonviolence | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |