Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence

Name: Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence
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ISBN: 9780691129143

ISBN-10: 0691129142

ISBN-13: 9780691129143

Edition: 2011

Authors: Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts

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Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Why Is Religion Violent and Violence Religious?



Religious Justifications for Violence


Introduction to Part I



Kautilya


"Forms of Treacherous Fights," the Arthashastra



Sun Tzu


"Laying Plans," The Art of War



The Bhagavad Gita


The Bhagavad Gita in the Mahabharata



Soho Takuan


"Annals of the Sword Taia," The Unfettered Mind



The Hebrew Bible


Deuteronomy 20


Exodus 23



The Qur'an


Surah 2 ("The Cow")



Thomas Aquinas


"Whether It Is Always Sinful to Wage War?"


Summa Theologica



Reinhold Niebuhr


"Why the Christian Church Is Not Pacifist"



Michael Bray


"A Time for Revolution?" A Time to Kill



Abd al-Salam Faraj


The Neglected Duty



Meir Kahane


"War and Peace," The Jewish Idea



Shoko Asahara


Declaring Myself the Christ


Disaster Comes to the Land of the Rising Sun



9/11 Conspirator


"Last Instructions of 9/11"



Understanding the Religious Role in Violence


Introduction to Part II



Emile Durkheim


Elementary Forms of the Religious Life



Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss


"Conclusion," Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function



Sigmund Freud


Totem and Taboo



Rene Girard


"Sacrifice," Violence and the Sacred



Walter Burkert


Homo Necans



Maurice Bloch


Prey into Hunter



Georges Bataille


Theory of Religion



Karl Marx


Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right



Nancy Jay


"Sacrifice and Descent," Throughout Your Generations Forever



Elaine Scarry


The Body in Pain



Jean Baudrillard


The Spirit of Terrorism



Ashis Nandy


"The Discreet Charm of Indian Terrorism," The Savage Freud and Other Essays


Closing Comments: The Connection between War and Sacrifice


Selected Bibliography


Permissions


About the Editors


Index