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Author : William T Cavanaugh
Release Date : 03 September 2009
Publisher : OUP USA
Genre : Religion
Pages : 296
ISBN 13 : 9780195385045

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Cavanaugh challenges conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the secular are constructed. He examines how timeless and transcultural categories of 'religion and 'the secular' are used in arguments that religion causes violence.

The Myth of Religious Violence

Author : William T Cavanaugh
Publisher : OUP USA
Genre : Religion
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Cavanaugh challenges conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the secular are constructed. He examines how timeless and transcultural categories of 'religion and 'the secular' are used in arguments that religion causes violence....

Fields of Blood

Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Genre : Religion
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From the renowned and bestselling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence. For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after September 11: that faith in general is a source ...

Shattering the Myth

Author : Bruce B. Lawrence
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Genre : Religion
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Islam is often portrayed, especially in Western media, as an alien, violent, hostile, and monolithic religion, whose adherents are intent upon battling nonbelievers throughout the world. Shattering the Myth demonstrates that these conceptions more accurately reflect the bias of Western reporters than they do the realities of contemporary Islam. Westerners ...

The Myth of Normative Secularism

Author : Daniel D. Miller
Publisher : Duquesne
Genre : Phenomenology
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Modern political thought at least in the West has long presupposed that religion and politics constitute two distinct spheres with clearly demarcated boundaries. However, recent political developments, such as the rise of global Islamism and the American religious Right, have challenged the assumption that the progress of democracy within a ...

God Is Not Great

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Genre : Philosophy
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Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as “one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time” takes on his biggest subject yet–the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and ...

On the Significance of Religion in Conflict and Conflict Resolution

Author : Christine Schliesser,S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana,Pauline Kollontai
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Religion
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In this ground-breaking volume, the authors analyze the role of religion in conflict and conflict resolution. They do so from the perspectives of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, while bringing different disciplines into play, including peace and conflict studies, religious studies, theology, and ethics. With much of current academic, political, and ...

A Trinitarian Theology of Law

Author : David H. McIlroy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Genre : Religion
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This book explores the neglected significance of the doctrine of the Trinity for the understanding of human law. Through interaction with the thought of Jurgen Moltmann, Oliver O'Donovan and Thomas Aquinas, it argues that human law is called to play a positive but limited role in maintaining "shallow justice" and ...

Fighting Words

Author : Hector Avalos
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Religion
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Contending that violence is often the result of scarce resources, the author maintains that scarcity and an endorsement of violence is reflected in the religious concepts of sacred space, "chosen people," and salvation....