LEADER 05174nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910463022103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-87586-932-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000312517 035 $a(EBL)1085192 035 $a(OCoLC)828302709 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000832228 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12407966 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000832228 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10899821 035 $a(PQKB)10193501 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1085192 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1085192 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10632177 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000312517 100 $a20120808d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA fatal addiction$b[electronic resource] $ewar in the name of God /$fThomas Block 210 $aNew York $cAlgora Pub.$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (226 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87586-931-9 311 $a0-87586-930-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction; Truth; America: A Case Study in the Difference between Truth and Reality; One Truth; A Time-Honored Truth; A Religious People; Uncovered Truth; The Truth Shall Never Dissuade; America the Bellicose; Chapter One: War; Violence and Society; Violence and Spirituality; Violence and The Scapegoat; Violence of God; War and Religion; War and the State; A Parsimonious God; War and the Warrior; War is Beautiful; War is Sublime; War is Love; A Love of Killing; War as Mysticism; War is Holy; Chapter Two: From the Beginning of Humanity; Original Human 327 $aPrimitive Religion and the Birth of the Violent GodSacrifice; Babylonian Religion: Creation from Destruction; The Greek and Roman Religions; Greek Gods and War; God and Sacrifice; Aristotle and Plato; Rome; Mars; Chapter Three: Judaism; Jewish Scripture; An Atmosphere Pervaded with Violence; The Jewish God and His Battered Spouse; Sacrifice, Martyrdom and the Will of God; Israel: God, Land and the Other; "just war"; Judaism Today - More of the Same?; How the Jewish Bible Affects Christianity; Sacrifice; And Echoes in Islam; Chapter Four: Christianity; Jesus - a Message of Peace? 327 $aThe Early Church FathersMartyrdom; The First Council of Nicaea and the Fall of Christianity; "just war"; Error Has No Right; The Holy Roman Empire; Augustinian Influence on Later Christian Thinkers; The Principle of Double Effect; Protestant War; The Crusades; The Inquisition; Christianity Today; Chapter Five: Islam; Early Islam; Scriptures; Jihad; A Blood Covenant; Islam Today; A "just war"; Chapter Six: Hinduism; Bhagavad Gita; Violent Imagery; "Just war"; Hindus Today; Sikhism; Chapter Seven: Buddhism; Violent Imagery; Buddhist Liturgy; More Violent Imagery; Buddhism and the State 327 $a"just war" TheoryJapan; Exceptionalism; The Sword and the Lotus; Monks and War; Sugimoto; Zen, the State and a "just war"; China; The Tao of Slaughter; Violent Imagery; Chinese Buddhism and the Korean War; India; Violence in Indian Buddhism; Ashoka; Reverberations: Violence in Indian Buddhism Today; Tibet; Born of Violence and Violent Still; Thailand; Buddhist Apocalypse; Military Monk; Sri Lanka; Mongolia; Et Tu, United States?; Final Thoughts; Chapter Eight: War as Love; Abraham's Curse; Love, War and Sacrifice in the 21st Century; America: A Case Study in Sacred Violence 327 $aAmerica: The New IsraelSacrificing for God and Country; American History: Our Violence is God's Will; George W. Bush, September 11, 2001, and America's 21st-Century Crusade; Bush's Minions: You're Either With Us or Against Us; God, War and the American Worldview; On the Fringe?; Epilogue; War as Mysticism: Redux; Religion and Violence: A Reconsideration; Sacrifice Revisited; Will, Violence and God's Purpose; War, God and the Act of Creation; Le Plus c?a Change; War the Boundless; Without sacred violence, would society be possible?; A Conclusion; Violence and Chaos; Endnotes; Bibliography 330 $aThis unsettling book reviews specific instances of 'holy war' as proposed in the holy books of the major faith traditions, and illustrates how bellicose, war-like language is used to explain the spiritual quest. The author proposes that this intermingling of war and spirituality prepares the population for the coming of war. War as spiritual practice appears inevitable, due to this religio-violent education which is woven through all faith traditions. The institutional blending of the sacred and human aggression appear to be fundamental to human society. The second section of the book particu 606 $aViolence$xReligious aspects 606 $aWar$xReligious aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aViolence$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aWar$xReligious aspects. 676 $a201.7273 676 $a201/.7273 700 $aBlock$b Thomas$0915257 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463022103321 996 $aA fatal addiction$92138478 997 $aUNINA