The Blackwell companion to religion and violence / / edited by Andrew R. Murphy

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (675 p.)
• Disciplina: 205.697
• Soggetto topico: Violence - Religious aspects; Religion
• Classificazione: SOC051000
• Altri autori: MurphyAndrew R. <1967->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Blackwell Companions to Religion""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: "Religion" and "Violence": Defining Terms, Defining Relationships""; ""CHAPTER 1 Religion and Violence: Coming to Terms with Terms""; ""The Category Formerly Known as Religion?""; ""Religious and Secular Violence""; ""What Is Violence?""; ""Religion, Violence, and Power""; ""CHAPTER 2 The Myth of Religious Violence""; ""Why No One Seems to Know What Religion Is""; ""Histories of Religion""; ""Power and the Religious/Secular Distinction"" ; ""Conclusion""""Part II: Disciplinary Perspectives""; ""CHAPTER 3 Religion and Violence: An Economic Approach""; ""Introduction""; ""The Religious Economies School: A Brief Introduction""; ""Religion, Rationality, and Violence: The Example of Suicide Bombers.""; ""Conclusion: Extending the Economic Perspective beyond Suicide Bombing""; ""CHAPTER 4 Religion, Identity, and Violence: Some Theoretical Reflections""; ""I""; ""II""; ""III""; ""IV""; ""V""; ""VI""; ""CHAPTER 5 Anthropological Reflections on Religion and Violence""; ""Anthropological Definitions of Violence"" ; ""Methodological Challenges for Studying Violence Anthropologically""""Religion as Justification of Violence""; ""Religion as Coping Strategy for Victims""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER 6 Spiritual Devotion and Self-Annihilation: An Evolutionary Perspective""; ""Pleasure and Adaptation""; ""Religion and Hedonic Control""; ""Cultivating Higher Pleasure""; ""The Group Based on Pleasure/Love""; ""A Danger to Themselves""; ""CHAPTER 7 The Sociology of Religious Violence""; ""Understanding the Sociology of Religious Violence""; ""The Nature of Religious Socialization"" ; ""Cultural Clashes and Religious Violence""""Religious Martyrdom""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER 8 Religion, Law, and Violence""; ""Defining Religion, Violence, and Law""; ""Religion as a Legal Tool or Weapon of the State""; ""Religion as a Threat to the State""; ""The Tangled Web and the Limits of Control""; ""The International Dimension""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER 9 Mediating Religious Violence""; ""Introduction""; ""Representing Religious Violence""; ""Recycling Religious Violence""; ""Interpreting Religious Violence""; ""Conclusions"" ; ""CHAPTER 10 Gender in the Production of Religious and Secular Violence""""Introduction: The Complexity of Violence""; ""Religious and Secular Violence in Afghanistan and Iraq""; ""Questions for Feminists""; ""Look Both Ways""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER 11 Explaining Religious Violence: Retrospects and Prospects""; ""Science and the Study of Religious Violence""; ""Religious Studies and Violence""; ""Post 9/11 Theories""; ""Scarce Resource Theory""; ""Religious Violence as a Myth""; ""Summary and Prospects""; ""Part III: Traditions and Movements, Concepts and Themes"" ; ""CHAPTER 12 Christianity and Violence""
• Sommario/riassunto: "The timely Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence 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. This 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 A focused collection of high-quality scholarship provides readers with a state-of-the-art account of the latest work in this field. The 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."--; "The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence 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. The 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: The Blackwell companion to religion and violence
• ISBN: 1-283-37892-2; 1-4443-9574-2; 1-78268-342-9; 1-4443-5072-2; 9786613378927; 1-4443-9572-6; 1-4443-9573-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829963003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to religion ; ; 42.