Violence, Transformation, and The Sacred: "They shall be called Children of God"
Author | : Margaret Pfeil and Tobias L. Winright |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Violence |
ISBN | : 1608331318 |
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Author | : Margaret Pfeil and Tobias L. Winright |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Violence |
ISBN | : 1608331318 |
Author | : R. Scott Appleby |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780847685554 |
This text explains what religious terrorists and religious peacemakers share in common and what causes them to take different paths in fighting injustice.
Author | : Wolfgang Palaver |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2021-02-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108595146 |
Studies into religion and violence often put religion first. René Girard started with violence in his book Violence and the Sacred and used the Durkheimian term 'sacred' as its correlate in his study of early religions. During the unfolding of his theory, he more and more distinguished the sacred from saintliness to address the break that the biblical revelation represented in comparison to early religions. This distinction between the sacred and saintliness resembles Henri Bergson's complementing Emile Durkheim's identification of the sacred and society with a dynamic religion that relies on individual mystics. Girard's distinction also relates to the insights of thinkers like Jacques Maritain, Simone Weil, and Emmanuel Levinas. This element explores some of Girard's main features of saintliness. Girard pleaded for the transformation of the sacred into holy, not their separation.
Author | : Hector Avalos |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1615921958 |
Is religion inherently violent? If not, what provokes violence in the name of religion? Do we mischaracterize religion by focusing too much on its violent side?In this intriguing, original study of religious violence, Prof. Hector Avalos offers a new theory for the role of religion in violent conflicts. Starting with the premise that most violence is the result of real or perceived scare resources, Avalos persuasively argues that religion creates new scarcities on the basis of unverifiable or illusory criteria. Through a careful analysis of the fundamental texts of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism, Dr. Avalos explains how four scarce resources have figured repeatedly in creating religious violence: sacred space (e.g., the perception by three world religions that Jerusalem is sacred); the creation of holy scriptures (believed to be privileged revelations of God's will); group privilege (stemming from such beliefs as a chosen people or predestination, which also creates a group of outsiders); and salvation (by which concept some are accepted and others rejected). Thus, Avalos shows, religious violence is often the most unnecessary violence of all since the scarce resources over which religious conflicts ensue are not actually scare or need not be scarce.Comparing violence in religious and nonreligious contexts, Avalos makes the compelling argument that if we condemn violence caused by scarce resources as morally objectionable, then we must consider even more objectionable violence provoked by alleged scarcities that cannot be proven to exist. He also examines the Nazi Holocaust and the Stalinist Terror, which have been attributed to the pernicious effects of atheism or secular humanism. By contrast, Avalos pinpoints underlying religious factors as the cause of these horrific instances of genocidal violence.This serious philosophical examination of the roots of religious violence adds much to our understanding of a perennial source of widespread human suffering.Hector Avalos (Ames, IA) is associate professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University, the author of five books on biblical studies and religion, the former editor of the Journal for the Critical Study of Religion, and executive director of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion.
Author | : Margaret R. Pfeil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781570759697 |
Margaret R. Pfeil is assistant professor of moral theology at the University of Notre Dame and a faculty fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. She is co-editor of Sharing Peace: Mennonites and Catholics in Conversation, and co-author of The Scandal of White Complicity in U.S. Hyper-incarceration. She is a founder and resident of the St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker Community in South Bend, Indiana. Tobias L. Winright is associate professor of theological ethics at Saint Louis University. He is co-author of After the Smoke Clears: The just War Tradition Post War Justice and the editor of Green Discipleship: Catholic Theological Ethics and the Environment.
Author | : Alfred J. Andrea |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2021-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 162466962X |
"This rich and engaging book looks at instances of sanctified violence, the holy wars related to religion. It covers it all, from ancient to present day, including examples of warfare among Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists, as well as Christians, Jews and Muslims. It is a comprehensive and readable overview that provides a lively introduction to the subject of holy war in its broadest sense—as ‘sanctified violence’ in the service of a god or ideology. It is certain to be a useful companion in the classroom, and a boon to anyone fascinated by the dark attraction of religion and violence." —Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara Contents: Introduction: What Is Holy War? Chapter 1: Holy Wars in Mythic Time, Holy Wars as Metaphor, Holy Wars as RitualChapter 2: Holy Wars of Conquest in the Name of a DeityChapter 3: Holy Wars in Defense of the SacredChapter 4: Holy Wars in Anticipation of the Millennium Epilogue: Holy Wars Today and Tomorrow Also included are a description of the Critical Themes in World History series, Preface, index, and suggestions for further reading.
Author | : Nukhet A. Sandal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2017-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107161711 |
The book introduces a theoretical framework to understand the role of religious leaders in conflict transformation and peacebuilding.
Author | : Karen Armstrong |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2009-02-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0307371433 |
From one of the world’s leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God, The Battle for God and The Spiral Staircase, comes a major new work: a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual revolutions in world history and its relevance to our own time. In one astonishing, short period – the ninth century BCE – the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity into the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in China; Hinduism and Buddhism in India; monotheism in Israel; and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Historians call this the Axial Age because of its central importance to humanity’s spiritual development. Now, Karen Armstrong traces the rise and development of this transformative moment in history, examining the brilliant contributions to these traditions made by such figures as the Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Ezekiel. Armstrong makes clear that despite some differences of emphasis, there was remarkable consensus among these religions and philosophies: each insisted on the primacy of compassion over hatred and violence. She illuminates what this “family” resemblance reveals about the religious impulse and quest of humankind. And she goes beyond spiritual archaeology, delving into the ways in which these Axial Age beliefs can present an instructive and thought-provoking challenge to the ways we think about and practice religion today. A revelation of humankind’s early shared imperatives, yearnings and inspired solutions – as salutary as it is fascinating. Excerpt from The Great Transformation: In our global world, we can no longer afford a parochial or exclusive vision. We must learn to live and behave as though people in remote parts of the globe were as important as ourselves. The sages of the Axial Age did not create their compassionate ethic in idyllic circumstances. Each tradition developed in societies like our own that were torn apart by violence and warfare as never before; indeed, the first catalyst of religious change was usually a visceral rejection of the aggression that the sages witnessed all around them. . . . All the great traditions that were created at this time are in agreement about the supreme importance of charity and benevolence, and this tells us something important about our humanity.
Author | : Kathryn McClymond |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2008-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801887763 |
Argues that the modern Western world's reductive understanding of sacrifice simplifies an enormously broad and dynamic cluster of religious activities, drawing on a comparative study of Vedic and Jewish sacrificial practices to demonstrate not only that sacrifice has no single, essential, identifying characteristic, but also that the elements most frequently attributed to such acts--death and violence--are not universal.
Author | : Philip A Mellor |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2014-08-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1473907373 |
"About time! Two key experts in the field remind us of the significance and power of religion as bio-political and bio-economic." - Beverley Skeggs, Goldsmiths, University of London "A welcome addition to a continuing body of work by two distinguished theorists of religion." - Grace Davie, University of Exeter "Mellor and Shilling cement their place at the pinnacle of the contemporary sociological theorisation of religion and the sacred. If sociological work is going to have any future it is to be found in the inspiration and excitement of this sophisticated and intelligent book." - Keith Tester, University of Hull "This book is ambitious, refreshing and rewarding. It offers the best available analysis of the complex interlacing of the sacred, religion, secularization and embodied experience." - James A. Beckford, University of Warwick Drawing on classical and contemporary social theory, Sociology of the Sacred presents a bold and original account of how interactions between religious and secular forms of the sacred underpin major conflicts in the world today, and illuminate broader patterns of social and cultural change inherent to global modernity. It demonstrates: How the bodily capacities help religions adapt to social change but also facilitate their internal transformation That the ‘sacred’ includes a diverse range of phenomena, with variable implications for questions of social order and change How proponents of a ‘post-secular’ age have failed to grasp the ways in which sacralization can advance secularization Why the sociology of the sacred needs to be a key part of attempts to make sense of the nature and directionality of social change in global modernity today. This book is key reading for the sociology of religion, the body and modern culture.