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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464960103321

Autore

Clarke Steve <1964->

Titolo

The justification of religious violence / / Steve Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-52975-8

1-118-52976-6

1-118-52965-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Public Philosophy

Disciplina

201/.76332

Soggetti

Violence - Religious aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Justification, Religion, and Violence; September 11 (1857); Religion and Violence; Violence; Justification; Nothing Bad; Between "Anything and Everything" and "Nothing Bad"; Nature and Supernature; Notes; Chapter 2 Religion; Generalizing about Religion; Supernatural Beings; Ritual; The Evolution of Religion; Memes and Religious Memeplexes; Religion as an Evolutionary By-product; Religion as an Evolutionary Adaptation; Social Solidarity and Religion; Defining Religion; Notes; Chapter 3 Morality; Introduction; Evolved Morality

Morality, Evolution, and CultureConsequentialism, Deontology, and the Neuroscience of Moral Cognition; Reasoning and Intuiting; Morality and Religion; Notes; Chapter 4 Justifying Violence, War, and Cosmic War; Justifying Violence; Justice, War, and Just War Theory; Pacifism; Religious War and Cosmic War; Cosmic War; Cosmic War and the Supreme Emergency Exception; Cosmic War and the Superior Orders Plea; Cosmic War and Non-Combatant Immunity; Notes; Chapter 5 The Afterlife; Afterlife Beliefs; Christianity, Violence, and Salvation; Buddhism, Violence, and Reincarnation

Suicide, Suicide Cults, and the AfterlifeNotes; Chapter 6 The Sacred; The Sacred and the Holy; Durkheim; Sacred Values; Sacralization;



Justification and the Sacred; Notes; Chapter 7 Recent Justifications of Religious Violence; Introduction; The Gatekeepers and Deific Decree; Aum Shinrikyo; Heaven's Gate; The Killing of George Tiller; Meir Kahane and the Kach Party; Al-Qaeda; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Chapter 8 Tolerance; Liberal Democracy and Religious Tolerance; What Tolerance Is; Justifying Religious Tolerance; Religion, Toleration, and Causation

Violent Religious Groups, Tolerance, and the Liberal StateNotes; Chapter 9 Reducing Religious Violence; Religion, Violence, Justification, and Motivation; Undermining Religious Justifications for Violence; Undermining Religion; Undermining Confidence in Religious Beliefs; Trying to Keep Religion out of the Public Sphere; Offering Incentives; Cosmic War, the Afterlife, and the Opportunity to Make Converts; Cosmic Warriors and the Opportunity to Make Converts; Afterlife Beliefs and the Opportunity to Make Converts; Avoiding Conflicts over Sacred Values; Reframing Sacred Values

Prioritizing Sacred ValuesRituals, Threats, and the Sacred; Tolerating Violent Religious Groups; Concluding Remark; Notes; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

How are justifications for religious violence developed and do they differ from secular justifications for violence? Can liberal societies tolerate potentially violent religious groups? Can those who accept religious justifications for violence be dissuaded from acting violently? Including six in-depth contemporary case studies, The Justification of Religious Violence is the first book to examine the logical structure of justifications of religious violence. The first book specifically devoted to examining the logical structure of justifications of religious violence<