Overview

From India to Iraq, from London to Lahore, the relationship between religion and violence is one of the most bitterly contested and casually misrepresented issues of our times. This groundbreaking volume brings together expert perspectives from a variety of fields to probe it. It seeks to shift analytical focus on to the contexts in which violence is expressed, enacted and reported. Ranging from Islam to Buddhism to new religious movements in the West, ""Dying for Faith"" offers a comprehensive and highly original account of a complex phenomenon that has so far attracted sensational media coverage but scant academic attention.

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Author:   Madawi Al-Rasheed ,  Marat Shterin
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9781845116873

ISBN 10:   1845116879
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 April 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Contributors Foreign words Introduction Madawi Al-Rasheed and Marat Shterin, Between death of faith and dying for faith: reflections on religion, politics, society and violence Part I: Understanding religiously motivated violence Chapter 1 Apocalypse, history, and the empire of modernity John Hall Chapter 2 Martyrs and martial imagery: exploring the volatile link between warfare frames and religious violence Stuart Wright Chapter 3 Violence and new religions: an assessment of problems, progress, and prospects in understanding the NRM-violence connection J. Gordon Melton and David G. Bromley Chapter 4 Of 'cultists' and 'martyrs': the study of new religious movements and suicide terrorism in conversation Massimo Introvigne Chapter 5 In God's name: practising unconditional love to the death Eileen Barker Chapter 6 The terror of belief and the belief in terror: on violently serving God and nation Abdelwahhab El-Affendi Part II: Religiously motivated violence in specific contexts Chapter 7 Rituals of life and death: the politics and poetics of jihad in Saudi Arabia Madawi Al-Rasheed Chapter 8 The Islamic debate over self-inflicted martyrdom Azam Tamimi Chapter 9 The radical nineties revisited: jihadi discourses in Britain Jonathan Birt Chapter 11 al-Shahada: a centre of the Shiite system of belief Fouad Ibrahim Chapter 12 Urban unrest and non-religious radicalization in Saudi Arabia Pascal Menoret and Awadh al-Utaybi Chapter 13 Bodily punishments and the spiritually transcendent dimensions of violence: a Zen Buddhist example Ian Reader Chapter 14 Jewish millennialism and violence Simon Dein Part III: Reporting religiously motivated violence Chapter 15 Sacral violence: cosmologies and imaginaries of killing Neil Whitehead Chapter 16 Journalists as eyewitnesses Noha Mellor Chapter 17 Understanding religious violence: can the media be trusted to explain? Mark Huband Index

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Madawi Al-Rasheed is Professor of Anthropology of Religion at King's College London. Marat Shterin is a Lectuer in Theology and Religious Studies at King's College, London.

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