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Author: Margo Kitts ,
Mark K. Juergensmeyer ,
Michael K. Jerryson
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.30cm
Weight: 0.364kg
ISBN: 9780190649661
ISBN 10: 0190649666
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 16 March 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Violence in the World's Religious Traditions is sure to provoke thoughtful response and get readers asking the right questions. Anyone interested in the subject of religion and violence will find much to think about before drawing hasty conclusions on this highly-charged topic. --Jamin Hubner, Reading Religion As an introduction to the study of religion and violence, this volume provides a valuable overview of a timeless, yet all-too-timely, subject. --Andrew R. Murphy, Sociology of Religion The essays in this volume examine that relationship [between religion and violence] by offering a well-rounded look at violence as it appears in the world s most prominent religious traditions, exploring Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, Sikh, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, African, and Pacific Island texts and practices...shedding new light on the very nature of religion and confronting the question of how deeply intertwined are violence and faith. --Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology
All of the essays are thought-provoking as they address texts and scriptural traditions, symbols and metaphors, and manifestations of actual violence... There is food for thought in these readings for scholars already familiar with the broad strokes of theories of religion and violence, as well as those knowledgeable in the world's religious traditions. * Nova Religio *
All of the essays are thought-provoking as they address texts and scriptural traditions, symbols and metaphors, and manifestations of actual violence... There is food for thought in these readings for scholars already familiar with the broad strokes of theories of religion and violence, as well as those knowledgeable in the world's religious traditions. * Nova Religio * As an introduction to the study of religion and violence, this volume provides a valuable overview of a timeless, yet all-too-timely, subject. * Andrew R. Murphy, Sociology of Religion * Violence in the World's Religious Traditions is sure to provoke thoughtful response and get readers asking the right questions...anyone interested in the subject of religion and violence will find much to think about before drawing hasty conclusions on this highly-charged topic. * Jamin Hubner, Reading Religion *
Author Information
Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair of Global and Sikh Studies, and Fellow and Founding Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author or editor of over twenty books, including Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence and God in the Tumult of the Global Square. Margo Kitts is Professor of Humanities and Coordinator of Religious Studies and East-West Classical Studies at Hawai'i Pacific University in Honolulu. She is the author of Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society (2005, 2011) and over thirty articles on Homer, the ancient Near East, ritual, and violence. She is coeditor of State, Power, and Violence (vol. 3 of Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual, 2010) and, with Mark Juergensmeyer, Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence (2011). She also co-edits the Journal of Religion and Violence. Michael Jerryson is Professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University. He is the author of Mongolian Buddhism: The Rise and Fall of the Sangha (2008), Buddhist Fury: Religion and Violence in Southern Thailand (2011), coeditor with Mark Juergensmeyer of Buddhist Warfare (2010), and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism (2016). He also co-edits the Journal of Religion and Violence.
