{"product_id":"the-blackwell-companion-to-religion-and-violence-isbn-9781405191319","title":"The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence","description":"The timely \u003ci\u003eBlackwell Companion to Religion and Violence\u003c\/i\u003e brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who provide a coherent state of the art overview of the complex relationships between religion and violence.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eThis companion tackles one of the most important topics in the field of Religion in the twenty-first century, pulling together a unique collection of cutting-edge work \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA focused collection of high-quality scholarship provides readers with a state-of-the-art account of the latest work in this field \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe contributors are broad-ranging, international, and interdisciplinary, and include historians, political scientists, religious studies scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, theologians, scholars of women's and gender studies and communication \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart I. \"Religion\" and \"Violence\": Defining Terms, Defining Relationships.\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1. Religion and Violence: Coming to Terms with the Terms (\u003ci\u003eJohn D. Carlson, Arizona State University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Myth of Religious Violence (\u003ci\u003eWilliam T. Cavanaugh, DePaul University, Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Disciplinary Perspectives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. An Economic Approach to Religion and Violence (\u003ci\u003eAnthony Gill, University of Washington\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Religion, Identity and Violence: Some Theoretical Reflections (\u003ci\u003eAziz Esmail, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. An Anthropological Approach to Religion and Violence (\u003ci\u003eBettina E. Schmidt, Bangor University, Wales\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. An Evolutionary Perspective: Spiritual Devotion and Self-Annihilation (\u003ci\u003eAriel Glucklich, Georgetown University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Sociology of Religious Violence (\u003ci\u003eCharles Selengut, Drew University, New Jersey\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Religion, Law and Violence (\u003ci\u003eDavid E. Guinn, Center for International Development - SUNY\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Mediating Religious Violence (\u003ci\u003eJolyon Mitchell, University of Edinburgh\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Look Both Ways: Gender in the Production of Religious and Secular Violence (\u003ci\u003eJanet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College, Columbia University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Explaining Religious Violence: Retrospects and Prospects (\u003ci\u003eHector Avalos, Professor of Religious Studies, Iowa State University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Traditions and Movements, Concepts and Themes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Christianity and Violence (\u003ci\u003eJonathan Ebel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Genesis 34 and the Legacies of Biblical Violence (\u003ci\u003eElliott Horowitz, Bar Ilan University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Islam and Violence (\u003ci\u003eBeverley Milton-Edwards, Queen's University Belfast\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Religion and Violence in Hindu Traditions (\u003ci\u003eJeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Buddhism and Symbolic Violence (\u003ci\u003eBernard Faure, Columbia University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Religion, Violence, and Shintō (\u003ci\u003eWalter Skya, University of Alaska-Fairbanks\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Confucian Ethical Action and the Boundaries of Peace and War (\u003ci\u003eDon J. Wyatt, Middlebury College\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Violence in Chinese Religious Culture (\u003ci\u003eBarend J. ter Haar, University of Leiden, Netherlands\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. The Dialectic of Violence in Jainism (\u003ci\u003eChristopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Just War and Jihad of the Sword (\u003ci\u003eJames Turner Johnson, Rutgers University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Jihad and Martyrdom in Classical and Contemporary Islam (\u003ci\u003eDavid Cook, Rice University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. The Psychology of Contemporary Religious Terrorism (\u003ci\u003eJames W. Jones, Rutgers University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Pragmatic Responses: the Transformation of Failure and the Spiritualisation of Violence (\u003ci\u003eIan Reader, University of Manchester\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Sacrifice and Violence (\u003ci\u003eKathryn McClymond, Georgia State University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. History, Humiliation, and Religious Violence (\u003ci\u003eEllen Posman, Baldwin-Wallace College\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. Reconceptualizing Totalitarianism and Fascism (\u003ci\u003eRobert Imre, University of Newcastle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V. Case Studies: Religion and Violence, Past and Present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. Enduring the Sacred Scars of Slavery (\u003ci\u003eYolanda Pierce, Princeton Theological Seminary\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. South Asia: From Colonial Categories to a Crisis of Faith? (\u003ci\u003eYasmin Khan, Lecturer in Politics, Royal Holloway, University of London\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. Gender, Religion and Violence During the Holocaust (\u003ci\u003eJudith Baumel-Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. Women in the Sastric Tradition: Colonialism, Law, and Violence (\u003ci\u003eNandini Bhattacharyya-Panda, Indian Council of Historical Research\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Biblical Metaphors, Violent Intervention, and American Identity in the Spanish-American War (\u003ci\u003eMatthew McCullough, Vanderbilt University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. Militant Islam, Islamic Law, and National Disintegration in Sudan (\u003ci\u003eJok Madut Jok, Loyola Marymount University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. The Battle for Australia: Salvation and Conquest (\u003ci\u003eMarion Maddox, Macquarie University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. Religious-based Violence against Women, and Feminist Responses: Iran, Afghanistan, and Algeria (\u003ci\u003eValentine M. Moghadam. Purdue University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. Anti-Jewish Violence in Late Imperial Russia (\u003ci\u003eRobert Weinberg, Swarthmore College\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. Religion, Pluralism, and Conflict in the Pacific Islands (\u003ci\u003eYannick Fer, Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. Ritual Violence and Violent Ritual in Chinese Popular Religion (\u003ci\u003eAvron Boretz, The United Board\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39. The Politics of Protestant Violence: Abolitionists and Anti-Abortionists (\u003ci\u003eJoel Olson, Northern Arizona University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40. Religion and violence in Africa (\u003ci\u003eBen Jones, University of East Anglia\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41. Rethinking Religion and Politics in the Middle East (\u003ci\u003eJeroen Gunning, University of Durham\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42. The Rhetoric of Puritan Violence (\u003ci\u003eAndrew R. Murphy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI. Future prospects: Beyond violence?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43. Liberation from Violence (\u003ci\u003eThia Cooper, Gustavus Adolphus College\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44. Why Nonviolence? The American Tradition (\u003ci\u003eIra Chernus, University of Colorado at Boulder\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45. Religious Peacebuilding (\u003ci\u003eMaria Pilar Aquino, University of San Diego\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“To conclude, this survey of \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence\u003c\/i\u003e indicates its breadth, and thus its value to those studying the religious ethics of violence and peace, and to those studying violence and peace in other disciplines ... The \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e will spur advanced students and academics to explore methodologies and historical-cultural examples with which they were only passingly familiar.” (\u003ci\u003eStudies in Christian Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 May 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is an important reference work ... Highly recommended: upper-level graduates and above.\" (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 December 2011)  \u003cp\u003e\"This is a fascinating and enlightening book.\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Directions\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 November 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Very impressive ... The contributors write from a variety of perspectives - socio­logical, anthropological, historical, economic - and cover between them a wide range of religious traditions ... Taken together, the chapters in this Companion show how different forms of religious faith (including Christianity) can be distorted, and then inspire acts of brutality and violence ... An indispensable tool for anyone seeking to bring clarity rather than rhetoric to this murky area.\"   (\u003ci\u003eChurch Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 21 October 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A curious and voracious reader of the (mostly accessible) essays found in \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence\u003c\/i\u003e will learn a great deal about religion in its various cultural, economic, political and social manifestations, especially as these are related to violence.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Tablet\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 October 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAndrew R. Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His research focuses on the interconnections between religious and political thought and practice, most particularly in the Anglo-American tradition. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eConscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) and \u003ci\u003eProdigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9\/11\u003c\/i\u003e (2009); he is editor or co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Political Writings of William Penn\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eReligion, Politics, and American Identity: New Directions, New Controversies\u003c\/i\u003e (2006); and \u003ci\u003eLiterature, Culture, Tolerance\u003c\/i\u003e (2009).  \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence\u003c\/i\u003e offers a state-of-the-art overview of this diverse and crucially important subject. This timely volume brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who probe the complex relationship between religion and violence, now and in the past. Media accounts often announce the inherent connections between 'fanatical' believers and terroristic violence; but scholars have long recognized that such links are only one small part of a larger and more complex set of interactions. They argue that religious beliefs and practices are just as likely to provide resources for comfort and coping as to encourage violence and carnage.  \u003cp\u003eThe volume is divided into several major sections: Traditions and Movements, Disciplinary Perspectives, Concepts and Themes, and Case Studies, which explore specific incidences of both religious violence and instances where religion has contributed to the resistance of violence. A concluding section offers insights into the future direction of scholarship in the area. It also includes discussions of the ongoing importance of religion to terrorism, and religious competition and conflict in Africa. Each section offers high-quality, cutting-edge scholarship, as leading authorities seek to make sense of the problematic correlation between these two forces.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"\u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark volume, finely structured and beautifully executed. The essays in this outstanding collection bring much-needed precision to the discussion of religion and violence and prompt a multitude of questions about how and why we study it. The geographic framework is wonderfully expansive – there are detailed studies of cultures from throughout the world – and the disciplinary breadth is unparalleled in any recent reference work on religion. The most striking aspect of this volume, however, is the reflexivity that it brings to the study of religion and violence. In clear and engaging prose, these essays, taken together, challenge pat understandings of the topic by daring the reader to rethink the point of studying it. The collection amply and enviably demonstrates how strong editorial direction, which is lacking in many similar volumes, is crucial to shaping a book that is both scholarly and accessible to a broad readership.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eJohn Corrigan\u003c\/b\u003e, Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor, Florida State University","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990170419429,"sku":"NP9781405191319","price":245.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405191319.jpg?v=1761786774","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-blackwell-companion-to-religion-and-violence-isbn-9781405191319","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}