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Patterns legitimizing political violence in transcultural perspectives : Islamic and Christian traditions and legacies / / Bettina Koch



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Autore: Koch Bettina <1970-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Patterns legitimizing political violence in transcultural perspectives : Islamic and Christian traditions and legacies / / Bettina Koch Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
Disciplina: 201/.72
Soggetto topico: Religion and politics - Middle East
Religion and politics - Latin America
Violence - Religious aspects
Christianity - Middle East
Christianity - Latin America
Islam - Middle East
Islam - Latin America
Soggetto non controllato: Conflict
legitimacy
religion
violence
Classificazione: LB 49000
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Legitimacy, Religion, and Violence -- 2. Medieval Foundations -- 3. Religion and Violence in Twentieth Century Islam and Christianity -- 4. Insights and Implications: Duties, Rights, and Legitimizing Violence -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: This volume explores theoretical discourses in which religion is used to legitimize political violence. It examines the ways in which Christianity and Islam are utilized for political ends, in particular how violence is used (or abused) as an expedient to justify political action. This research focuses on premodern as well as contemporary discourses in the Middle East and Latin America, identifying patterns frequently used to justify the deployment of violence in both hegemonic and anti-hegemonic discourses. In addition, it explores how premodern arguments and authorities are utilized and transformed in order to legitimize contemporary violence as well as the ways in which the use of religion as a means to justify violence alters the nature of conflicts that are not otherwise explicitly religious. It argues that most past and present conflicts, even if the discourses about them are conducted in religious terms, have origins other than religion and/or blend religion with other causes, namely socio-economic and political injustice and inequality. Understanding the use and abuse of religion to justify violence is a prerequisite to discerning the nature of a conflict and might thus contribute to conflict resolution.
Titolo autorizzato: Patterns legitimizing political violence in transcultural perspectives  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-61451-394-5
1-61451-977-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827966803321
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Serie: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - Tension, Transmission, Transformation ; ; Volume 1.