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Author:   Nicholas F. Gier
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.594kg
ISBN:  

9780739192221

ISBN 10:   0739192221
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   20 August 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: From Mongols to Mughals: Hindu-Muslim Relations in Medieval India Chapter 2: Hindu Nationalism, Modernism, and Reverse Orientalism Chapter 3: Premodern Harmony, Sri Lankan Buddhist Nationalism, and Violence Chapter 4: Burmese Nationalisms and Religious Violence against Muslims Chapter 5: Buddhism in Bhutan: From Violent Lamas to Peaceful Kings Chapter 6: “Compassionate” Violence in Tibet: 1,000 Years of War Magic Chapter 7: Buddhism and Japanese Nationalism: A Sad Chronicle of Complicity Chapter 8: Sikhism, the Seduction of Modernism, and the Question of Violence Chapter 9: Religious Nationalism, Violence, and Taiping Christianity Chapter 10: Hypotheses on the Reasons for Religious Violence Chapter 11: The Gospel of Weak Belief, Overcoming the Other, and Constructive Postmodernism

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Thoroughly researched and meticulously argued, The Origins of Religious Violence makes a powerful case that Asian religious traditions-although historically less conducive to violence than their Western counterparts-have their own histories of complicity in warfare and oppression. Nicholas F. Gier provides a compelling and insightful philosophical analysis of why violence occurs in the name of religion, despite the centrality of nonviolence to so many of the world's religious traditions. This book should quickly become indispensable to college courses and to any serious conversation or reflection on religion and violence. -- Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College

Thoroughly researched and meticulously argued, The Origins of Religious Violence makes a powerful case that Asian religious traditions-although historically less conducive to violence than their Western counterparts-have their own histories of complicity in warfare and oppression. Nicholas F. Gier provides a compelling and insightful philosophical analysis of why violence occurs in the name of religion, despite the centrality of nonviolence to so many of the world's religious traditions. This book should quickly become indispensable to college courses and to any serious conversation or reflection on religion and violence. -- Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College This is an extremely timely, relevant, if not actually prophetic book as we continue to struggle with the roots and realities of religious violence, religious intolerance, and religious terrorism in our own contemporary world. -- Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University

Thoroughly researched and meticulously argued, The Origins of Religious Violence makes a powerful case that Asian religious traditions-although historically less conducive to violence than their Western counterparts-have their own histories of complicity in warfare and oppression. Nicholas F. Gier provides a compelling and insightful philosophical analysis of why violence occurs in the name of religion, despite the centrality of nonviolence to so many of the world's religious traditions. This book should quickly become indispensable to college courses and to any serious conversation or reflection on religion and violence. -- Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College, author of A Vision for Hinduism: Beyond Hindu Nationalism, Jainism: An Introduction, and The Historical Dictionary of Hinduism This is an extremely timely, relevant, if not actually prophetic book as we continue to struggle with the roots and realities of religious violence, religious intolerance, and religious terrorism in our own contemporary world. -- Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University

Thoroughly researched and meticulously argued, The Origins of Religious Violence makes a powerful case that Asian religious traditions-although historically less conducive to violence than their Western counterparts-have their own histories of complicity in warfare and oppression. Nicholas F. Gier provides a compelling and insightful philosophical analysis of why violence occurs in the name of religion, despite the centrality of nonviolence to so many of the world's religious traditions. This book should quickly become indispensable to college courses and to any serious conversation or reflection on religion and violence. -- Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College, author of A Vision for Hinduism: Beyond Hindu Nationalism, Jainism: An Introduction, and The Historical Dictionary of Hinduism This is an extremely timely, relevant, if not actually prophetic book as we continue to struggle with the roots and realities of religious violence, religious intolerance, and religious terrorism in our own contemporary world. -- Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University

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Nicholas F. Gier is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Idaho.

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