TY - BOOK ID - 17239608 TI - The Oxford handbook of religion and violence AU - Juergensmeyer, Mark AU - Kitts, Margo AU - Jerryson, Michael PY - 2013 SN - 9780199759996 9780190270094 0190270098 0199759995 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Violence KW - Religious aspects. KW - Sociology of religion KW - Social problems KW - Violence - Religious aspects. KW - religion and violence KW - religious traditions KW - violence and nonviolence KW - Hindu ethics KW - Buddhist traditions and violence KW - Sikh traditions and violence KW - religion and violence in the Jewish traditions KW - religion and violence in Christian traditions KW - Muslim engagement with injustice and violence KW - African traditional religion and violence KW - religion and violence in Pacific Island societies KW - violence in Chinese religious traditions KW - human sacrifice in religious traditions KW - starvation and sefl-mutilation in religious traditions KW - Apocalyptic religion and violence KW - cosmic war in religious traditions KW - genocide and the religious imaginary in Rwanda KW - religious terrorism KW - Christianity and torture KW - war KW - religiously motivated violence in the abortion debate KW - conflicts over sacred ground KW - religion and political violence KW - rituals of death and remembrance KW - violent death in religious imagination KW - sacrificial violence KW - ancient religions KW - Armageddon in Christian, Sunni and Shia traditions KW - phenomenal violence and the philosophy of religion KW - the construction of evil and the violence of purification KW - mimetic theories of religion and violence KW - religion and scarcity KW - the role of religion in violence KW - religiosity and armed struggle KW - understanding religious violence KW - martyrdom in Islam KW - starvation and self-mutilation in religious traditions KW - religion violence UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17239608 AB - Violence has always played a part in the religious imagination, from symbols and myths to legendary battles, from colossal wars to the theater of terrorism. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence offers intersections between religion and violence throughout history and around the world. Its forty chapters include overviews of major religious traditions, showing how violence is justified within the literary and theological foundations of the tradition, how it is used symbolically and in ritual practice, and how social acts of violence and warfare have been justified by religious ideas. They also examine patterns and themes relating to religious violence, such as sacrifice and martyrdom, which are explored in cross-disciplinary or regional analyses; and offer major analytic approaches, from literary to social scientific studies. ER -