The (De)Legitimization of Violence in Sacred and Human Contexts

This book provides a multidisciplinary commentary on a wide range of religious traditions and their relationship to acts of violence. Hate and violence occur at every level of human interaction, as do peace and compassion. Scholars of religion have a particular obligation to make sense out of this situation, tracing its history and variables, and drawing lessons for the future. From the formative periods of the religious traditions to their application in the contemporary world, the essays in this volume interrogate the views on violence found within the traditions and provide examples of religious practices that exacerbate or ameliorate situations of conflict.

Auteur

Muhammad Shafiq is Executive Director of the Hickey Center and holds the IIIT Interfaith Studies Chair at Nazareth College, USA.

Thomas Donlin-Smith is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Nazareth College, USA.

Contenu

1 Introduction

Thomas Donlin-Smith

Part I - In Sacred Context

2 Violence and The Cross: The Affinity Between Theories of Atonement and Christian Attitudes Towards War and Peace

Jeffrey A. McPherson

3 Facing Down Fear: John Chrysostom's Answer to Violence

Demetrios E. Tonias

4 The Parable of the Wedding Protest: Matthew 22:1-14 and Nonviolent Re-sistance

Marie Hause

5 Refuting the Violent Image of God in the Book of Joshua 6-12

Niveen Sarras

6 The Conflict of War: Unresolved Challenges and Sentiments in Jewish Sources

Saundra Sterling Epstein

7 Remodeling the Paradigm of Religious Inference and Decision Making in Islam: Converting Dogmatism into a Positive and Vibrant Human Activity

Muhammad Akhtar Saeed Siddiqi

8 Violence or its De-Legitimization? Conflicting Views from the Hindu World

Nawaraj Chaulagain

9 Speak Dhamma but Carry a Big Stick: Violence in Early Buddhist Dis-course

John Thompson

Part II - In Human Context

10 War and Religious Discourse in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Andrii Krawchuk

11 The Quest for Radical Islamism and the War on Terror in Indonesia

Etin Anwar

12 The Violent Wahhabism and the Use of Islamic Texts to Justify Armed Violence Against Muslims and Non-Muslims

Abdoul Aziz Gaye

13 Embracing Nonviolence: Pope Francis and Catholic Teaching on War

John Sniegocki

14 Covert Violence: Counting Cultural Trauma at the Intersection of ATR, Islam, and Neoliberalism in Africa

William Glennon

15 The Myth of Islam as Inherently Violent

Fatih Harpci

16 Heads Will Roll: Decapitations in Mughal Painting Persecution or Punishment?

Michael D. Calabria 17 Islamophobia and the Far Right in Modern Germany, 2008-2018: An In-troduction

Christian Van Gorder

Concluding Remarks

Index