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From Jeremiad to Jihad : Religion, Violence, and America / / John D. Carlson, Jonathan H. Ebel
From Jeremiad to Jihad : Religion, Violence, and America / / John D. Carlson, Jonathan H. Ebel
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2012]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (319 pages)
Disciplina 201.763320973
Soggetto topico United States - Religion
United States -- Religion
Violence - Religious aspects
Violence -- Religious aspects
Violence - United States
Violence -- United States
Violence - Religious aspects - United States
Violence
Soggetto non controllato america
american culture
american experience
american history
christianity
cultural history
formative moments
jeremiad
jihad
law enforcement
modern history
order and meaning
political history
religion and culture
religious historians
religious history
religious identities
religious institutions
religious rituals
religious texts
religious violence
revolution
secession
terrorism
united states
violent history
war
ISBN 1-280-49193-0
9786613587169
0-520-95153-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction. John Brown, Jeremiad, and Jihad: Reflections on Religion, Violence, and America -- 1. From King Philip's War to September 11: Religion, Violence, and the American Way -- 2. A Nation Birthed in Blood: Violent Cosmogonies and American Film -- 3. From Covenant to Crusade and Back: American Christianity and the Late Great War -- 4. From Jeremiad to Manifesto: The Rhetorical Evolution of John Foster Dulles's "Massive Retaliation" -- 5. American Providence, American Violence -- 6. New Israel, New Amalek: Biblical Exhortations to Religious Violence -- 7. Religion and Violence in Black and White -- 8. State Violence and the Un-American West: Mormons, American Indians, and Cults -- 9. Alma White's Bloodless Warfare: Women and Violence in U.S. Religious History -- 10. Of Tragedy and Its Aftermath: The Search for Religious Meaning in the Shootings at Virginia Tech -- 11. A Just or Holy War of Independence? The Revolution's Legacy for Religion, Violence, and American Exceptionalism -- 12. Why War Is a Moral Necessity for America: Realism, Sacrifice, and the Civil War -- 13. Contemporary Warfare and American Efforts at Restraint -- 14. Enemies Near and Far. The United States and Its Muslim Allies in Radical Islamist Discourse -- 15. Varieties of "Violence": Thinking Ethically about the Use of Force in the War on Terror -- Contributors -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910790109903321
Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2012]
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From Jeremiad to Jihad : Religion, Violence, and America / / John D. Carlson, Jonathan H. Ebel
From Jeremiad to Jihad : Religion, Violence, and America / / John D. Carlson, Jonathan H. Ebel
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2012]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (319 pages)
Disciplina 201.763320973
Soggetto topico United States - Religion
United States -- Religion
Violence - Religious aspects
Violence -- Religious aspects
Violence - United States
Violence -- United States
Violence - Religious aspects - United States
Violence
Soggetto non controllato america
american culture
american experience
american history
christianity
cultural history
formative moments
jeremiad
jihad
law enforcement
modern history
order and meaning
political history
religion and culture
religious historians
religious history
religious identities
religious institutions
religious rituals
religious texts
religious violence
revolution
secession
terrorism
united states
violent history
war
ISBN 1-280-49193-0
9786613587169
0-520-95153-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction. John Brown, Jeremiad, and Jihad: Reflections on Religion, Violence, and America -- 1. From King Philip's War to September 11: Religion, Violence, and the American Way -- 2. A Nation Birthed in Blood: Violent Cosmogonies and American Film -- 3. From Covenant to Crusade and Back: American Christianity and the Late Great War -- 4. From Jeremiad to Manifesto: The Rhetorical Evolution of John Foster Dulles's "Massive Retaliation" -- 5. American Providence, American Violence -- 6. New Israel, New Amalek: Biblical Exhortations to Religious Violence -- 7. Religion and Violence in Black and White -- 8. State Violence and the Un-American West: Mormons, American Indians, and Cults -- 9. Alma White's Bloodless Warfare: Women and Violence in U.S. Religious History -- 10. Of Tragedy and Its Aftermath: The Search for Religious Meaning in the Shootings at Virginia Tech -- 11. A Just or Holy War of Independence? The Revolution's Legacy for Religion, Violence, and American Exceptionalism -- 12. Why War Is a Moral Necessity for America: Realism, Sacrifice, and the Civil War -- 13. Contemporary Warfare and American Efforts at Restraint -- 14. Enemies Near and Far. The United States and Its Muslim Allies in Radical Islamist Discourse -- 15. Varieties of "Violence": Thinking Ethically about the Use of Force in the War on Terror -- Contributors -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910808375003321
Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2012]
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Islam and the challenge of civilization [[electronic resource] /] / Abdelwahab Meddeb ; translated by Jane Kuntz
Islam and the challenge of civilization [[electronic resource] /] / Abdelwahab Meddeb ; translated by Jane Kuntz
Autore Meddeb Abdelwahab
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (192 p.)
Disciplina 297.2/709051
Altri autori (Persone) KuntzJane
Soggetto topico Islam - 21st century
Islamic civilization
Muslims - Non-Muslim countries
Islamic renewal
Soggetto non controllato Ibn Arabi
Koran
Sufism
ijtihad
islam
jihad
monotheism
ISBN 0-8232-5188-8
0-8232-5291-4
0-8232-5124-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue: Religion and Violence -- 1. The Koran as Myth -- 2. The Clash of Interpretations -- 3. On the Arab Decline -- 4. Civilization or Extinction -- 5. Enlightenment between High and Low Voltage -- 6. The Physics and Metaphysics of Nature -- Epilogue: Religion and Cosmopolitics -- Appendix A: The veil unveiled: dialogue with Christian Jambet -- Appendix B: Obama in Cairo -- Notes
Record Nr. UNINA-9910788212103321
Meddeb Abdelwahab  
New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013
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Islam and the challenge of civilization [[electronic resource] /] / Abdelwahab Meddeb ; translated by Jane Kuntz
Islam and the challenge of civilization [[electronic resource] /] / Abdelwahab Meddeb ; translated by Jane Kuntz
Autore Meddeb Abdelwahab
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (192 p.)
Disciplina 297.2/709051
Altri autori (Persone) KuntzJane
Soggetto topico Islam - 21st century
Islamic civilization
Muslims - Non-Muslim countries
Islamic renewal
Soggetto non controllato Ibn Arabi
Koran
Sufism
ijtihad
islam
jihad
monotheism
ISBN 0-8232-5188-8
0-8232-5291-4
0-8232-5124-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue: Religion and Violence -- 1. The Koran as Myth -- 2. The Clash of Interpretations -- 3. On the Arab Decline -- 4. Civilization or Extinction -- 5. Enlightenment between High and Low Voltage -- 6. The Physics and Metaphysics of Nature -- Epilogue: Religion and Cosmopolitics -- Appendix A: The veil unveiled: dialogue with Christian Jambet -- Appendix B: Obama in Cairo -- Notes
Record Nr. UNINA-9910821885203321
Meddeb Abdelwahab  
New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013
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Jihad and Islam in World War I : Studies on the Ottoman Jihad at the centenary of Snouck Hurgronje’s “Holy War Made in Germany” / / edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher
Jihad and Islam in World War I : Studies on the Ottoman Jihad at the centenary of Snouck Hurgronje’s “Holy War Made in Germany” / / edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher
Autore Zürcher Erik-Jan
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden, : Leiden University Press, 2016
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (357 p.)
Disciplina 940.3/24561
Collana LUCIS series 'Debates on Islam and society'
Soggetto topico Jihad
World War, 1914-1918 - Turkey
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato islam
middle east
middle eastern and islamic studies
world war I
history
jihad
ISBN 94-006-0233-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preface -- Introduction : the Ottoman jihad, the German jihad and the sacralization of war / Erik-Jan Zürcher -- Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, "holy war" and colonial concerns / Leon Buskens -- The Ottoman proclamation of jihad / Mustafa Aksakal -- (Not) using political Islam : the German Empire and its failed propaganda campaign in the Near and Middle East, 1914-1918 and beyond / Tilman Lüdke -- Domestic aspects of Ottoman jihad : the role of religious motifs and religious agents in the mobilization of the Ottoman Army / Mehmet Beşikçi -- Ottoman jihad or jihads : the Ottoman Shīʻī jihad, the successful one / M. Şükrü Hanioğlu -- Propaganda or culture war : jihad, Islam, and nationalism in Turkish literature during World War I / Erol Köroğlu -- Gendering jihad : Ottoman Muslim women and war during the early twentieth century / Nicole van Os -- Architectural jihad : the "Halbmondlager" Mosque of Wünsdorf as an instrument of propaganda / Martin Gussone -- War, propaganda and architecture : Cemal Pasha's restoration of Islamic architecture in Damascus during World War I / Hans Theunissen -- The man who would be Caliph : Sharīfian propaganda in World War I / Joshua Teitelbaum -- A German "illusive love" : Rashīd Riḍā's perceptions of the First World War in the Muslim world / Umar Ryad -- John Buchan's British-designed jihad in Greenmantle / Ahmed K. al-Rawi.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910136384503321
Zürcher Erik-Jan  
Leiden, : Leiden University Press, 2016
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Jihad and Islam in World War I : Studies on the Ottoman Jihad at the centenary of Snouck Hurgronje’s “Holy War Made in Germany” / / edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher
Jihad and Islam in World War I : Studies on the Ottoman Jihad at the centenary of Snouck Hurgronje’s “Holy War Made in Germany” / / edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher
Autore Zürcher Erik-Jan
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden, : Leiden University Press, 2016
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (357 p.)
Disciplina 940.3/24561
Collana LUCIS series 'Debates on Islam and society'
Soggetto topico Jihad
World War, 1914-1918 - Turkey
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato islam
middle east
middle eastern and islamic studies
world war I
history
jihad
ISBN 94-006-0233-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preface -- Introduction : the Ottoman jihad, the German jihad and the sacralization of war / Erik-Jan Zürcher -- Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, "holy war" and colonial concerns / Leon Buskens -- The Ottoman proclamation of jihad / Mustafa Aksakal -- (Not) using political Islam : the German Empire and its failed propaganda campaign in the Near and Middle East, 1914-1918 and beyond / Tilman Lüdke -- Domestic aspects of Ottoman jihad : the role of religious motifs and religious agents in the mobilization of the Ottoman Army / Mehmet Beşikçi -- Ottoman jihad or jihads : the Ottoman Shīʻī jihad, the successful one / M. Şükrü Hanioğlu -- Propaganda or culture war : jihad, Islam, and nationalism in Turkish literature during World War I / Erol Köroğlu -- Gendering jihad : Ottoman Muslim women and war during the early twentieth century / Nicole van Os -- Architectural jihad : the "Halbmondlager" Mosque of Wünsdorf as an instrument of propaganda / Martin Gussone -- War, propaganda and architecture : Cemal Pasha's restoration of Islamic architecture in Damascus during World War I / Hans Theunissen -- The man who would be Caliph : Sharīfian propaganda in World War I / Joshua Teitelbaum -- A German "illusive love" : Rashīd Riḍā's perceptions of the First World War in the Muslim world / Umar Ryad -- John Buchan's British-designed jihad in Greenmantle / Ahmed K. al-Rawi.
Record Nr. UNISA-996509969103316
Zürcher Erik-Jan  
Leiden, : Leiden University Press, 2016
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Transforming Terror : Remembering the Soul of the World / / Karin Lofthus Carrington, Susan Griffin
Transforming Terror : Remembering the Soul of the World / / Karin Lofthus Carrington, Susan Griffin
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (390 p.)
Disciplina 363.325
Soggetto topico Violence -- Prevention
Terrorism - Psychological aspects
Terror - Prevention
Terrorism
Violence
Emotional intelligence
Soggetto non controllato activist
amos oz
bombing
civilians
comparative religion
compassion
conflict
crusade
daniel ellsberg
desmond tutu
fatema mernissi
forgiveness
fritjof capra
george lakoff
healing
holy war
huston smith
islam
jack kornfield
jihad
mahmoud darwish
nonfiction
pacifism
peace
political leaders
redemption
religious war
riane eisler
sociology
terrorism
terrorist violence
terrorist
terry tempest williams
violence
war on terror
world peace
ISBN 1-283-27811-1
9786613278111
0-520-94945-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Transforming Terror -- Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. A Deeper Look -- CHAPTER 1. Terror and Terrorism -- Civilian casualties: The New Frontline -- A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War -- Statement of the Under-Secretary-General at the Open Meeting of the Security Council on Protection Civilians in Armed Conflict, June 28, 2006 -- U.S. Nuclear Terrorism -- The Truth of War -- Afternoon -- A World Free of Nuclear Weapons -- The First Car Bomb -- Radiation and Children: The Ignored Victims -- Casida of the Lament -- An Injured Child -- Remarks at the Stockholm International Forum on Genocide Prevention -- Beyond the War on Terror: Understanding Reflexive Thought -- The American Psyche after September 11 -- On Religion and Terrorism -- The Spiritual Source of Islam -- Terrorism: Theirs and Ours -- Solidarity Against All Forms of Terrorism -- Lynched for No Offense -- Fatwa Issued on July 28, 2005; The Fiqh Council of North America -- Invocation for the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for 9/11 -- I Have Come to This Earth -- CHAPTER 2. An Unbearable Heartache: Trauma, Violence, and Memory -- The Aftermath of Violence: Trauma and Recovery -- Writings for a Liberation Psychology -- Ghosts and Echoes: Reflections after 9/11 -- Be Ahead of All Parting -- The Deeper Wound -- The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda -- Just One Story -- Unfolding -- The Hidden Damage of Nuclear Weapons -- The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade -- Under Bombardment in Beirut -- I Just Missed the Bus and I'll Be Late for Work -- Interrupted Subjects -- Not a Pass -- Peace -- Shantideva's Prayer: Buddhist Traditional Prayer (translated by the Dalai Lama) -- We Are Fields before Each Other -- CHAPTER 3. Denial, Dogma, and the Heroic Myth -- How to Cure a Fanatic -- The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness -- A Ritual to Read to Each Other -- Terror Comes Full Circle -- He Would Need Some Shoes -- Thoughts for the Times on War and Death -- Our Culture's Divided Soul -- The Denial of Death -- The Verbal Weapon of Mass Destruction -- Speech Opposing the Post-9/11 Use of Force Pact, September 14, 2001 -- Against Certainty -- Another Kind of Heroism -- On Vulnerability and the Sukkah of Shalom -- PART TWO. Paths to Transformation0 -- CHAPTER 4. In a Dark Time: The Wisdom in Grief, Fear, and Despair -- Healing Through the Dark Emotions in an Age of Global Threat -- An Interview by David Montenegro -- In a Dark Time -- Thoughts in the Presence of Fear -- The Testing-Tree -- Seeing Red: In a Dark Night of The American Soul -- A Terrible Love of War -- Morphologies of Silence -- overcoming cruelty -- Eulogy for The Martyred Children -- CHAPTER 5. Truth Telling and Justice -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Adopted and proclaimed December 10, 1948, by the General Assembly of the United Nations, resolution 217 A (III) -- Naming the Perpetrator -- There Was no Farewell -- Facing the Inferno: Transforming Terror into Tenderness -- Half-life of a Despot -- Moby Dick -- Crises of the Republic -- A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers) -- The Tenacity of Memory (La Tenacidad de la Memoria) -- Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers -- Rape as a War Crime -- The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda -- Facing into Truth: The Most Reverend Frank T. Griswold, XXV Presiding Bishop and Primate, the Episcopal Church, USA -- Zoroastrian Prayer -- CHAPTER 6. Reclaiming Our Selves: Gender and Violence -- Terror, Domination, and Partnership -- The Crowned Cannibals -- The Mind as Erotic Weapon -- The Birth of Plea sure -- A Woman's Side of the Story -- Please Listen to the Women of Iraq -- Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan -- Behind Bars -- Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link between Masculinity and Violence -- She Cannot Be Lost to Me -- Joining Prayers -- Serenity -- Acceptance Speech, Nobel Peace Prize -- Prayer of The Virgin of Guadalupe -- CHAPTER 7. Compassion and the Interdependence of Peace -- Compassion as the pillar of World Peace: His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama -- From Them to Us -- Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation -- Falling Bodies -- Forgive Us -- Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? -- Sustainability, Security, and Peace -- Wilenska -- On Forgiveness -- Good Friday World -- A Heart as Wide as the World -- A Task -- The Table of Peace -- The Courage to Wait -- Buddhist Meditation on Compassion -- In My Soul -- CHAPTER 8. Paths to Transformation -- Hope in The Dark -- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion -- Nonviolence: Weapon of the Brave, Weapon of the Future -- Ahimsa or the Way of Nonviolence -- Candles in Babylon -- On Citizen Diplomacy -- A New World Diplomacy -- On Courage and Resistance -- War Crimes Tribunal May End Impurity but They Can't Heal Hatred -- The Courage to Love -- At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace -- The Greatest Danger -- Thanks but No Thanks -- The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty -- The Generation of Trust -- Contributor Biographies -- Credits
Record Nr. UNINA-9910789634503321
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Transforming Terror : Remembering the Soul of the World / / Karin Lofthus Carrington, Susan Griffin
Transforming Terror : Remembering the Soul of the World / / Karin Lofthus Carrington, Susan Griffin
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (390 p.)
Disciplina 363.325
Soggetto topico Violence -- Prevention
Terrorism - Psychological aspects
Terror - Prevention
Terrorism
Violence
Emotional intelligence
Soggetto non controllato activist
amos oz
bombing
civilians
comparative religion
compassion
conflict
crusade
daniel ellsberg
desmond tutu
fatema mernissi
forgiveness
fritjof capra
george lakoff
healing
holy war
huston smith
islam
jack kornfield
jihad
mahmoud darwish
nonfiction
pacifism
peace
political leaders
redemption
religious war
riane eisler
sociology
terrorism
terrorist violence
terrorist
terry tempest williams
violence
war on terror
world peace
ISBN 1-283-27811-1
9786613278111
0-520-94945-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Transforming Terror -- Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. A Deeper Look -- CHAPTER 1. Terror and Terrorism -- Civilian casualties: The New Frontline -- A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War -- Statement of the Under-Secretary-General at the Open Meeting of the Security Council on Protection Civilians in Armed Conflict, June 28, 2006 -- U.S. Nuclear Terrorism -- The Truth of War -- Afternoon -- A World Free of Nuclear Weapons -- The First Car Bomb -- Radiation and Children: The Ignored Victims -- Casida of the Lament -- An Injured Child -- Remarks at the Stockholm International Forum on Genocide Prevention -- Beyond the War on Terror: Understanding Reflexive Thought -- The American Psyche after September 11 -- On Religion and Terrorism -- The Spiritual Source of Islam -- Terrorism: Theirs and Ours -- Solidarity Against All Forms of Terrorism -- Lynched for No Offense -- Fatwa Issued on July 28, 2005; The Fiqh Council of North America -- Invocation for the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for 9/11 -- I Have Come to This Earth -- CHAPTER 2. An Unbearable Heartache: Trauma, Violence, and Memory -- The Aftermath of Violence: Trauma and Recovery -- Writings for a Liberation Psychology -- Ghosts and Echoes: Reflections after 9/11 -- Be Ahead of All Parting -- The Deeper Wound -- The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda -- Just One Story -- Unfolding -- The Hidden Damage of Nuclear Weapons -- The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade -- Under Bombardment in Beirut -- I Just Missed the Bus and I'll Be Late for Work -- Interrupted Subjects -- Not a Pass -- Peace -- Shantideva's Prayer: Buddhist Traditional Prayer (translated by the Dalai Lama) -- We Are Fields before Each Other -- CHAPTER 3. Denial, Dogma, and the Heroic Myth -- How to Cure a Fanatic -- The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness -- A Ritual to Read to Each Other -- Terror Comes Full Circle -- He Would Need Some Shoes -- Thoughts for the Times on War and Death -- Our Culture's Divided Soul -- The Denial of Death -- The Verbal Weapon of Mass Destruction -- Speech Opposing the Post-9/11 Use of Force Pact, September 14, 2001 -- Against Certainty -- Another Kind of Heroism -- On Vulnerability and the Sukkah of Shalom -- PART TWO. Paths to Transformation0 -- CHAPTER 4. In a Dark Time: The Wisdom in Grief, Fear, and Despair -- Healing Through the Dark Emotions in an Age of Global Threat -- An Interview by David Montenegro -- In a Dark Time -- Thoughts in the Presence of Fear -- The Testing-Tree -- Seeing Red: In a Dark Night of The American Soul -- A Terrible Love of War -- Morphologies of Silence -- overcoming cruelty -- Eulogy for The Martyred Children -- CHAPTER 5. Truth Telling and Justice -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Adopted and proclaimed December 10, 1948, by the General Assembly of the United Nations, resolution 217 A (III) -- Naming the Perpetrator -- There Was no Farewell -- Facing the Inferno: Transforming Terror into Tenderness -- Half-life of a Despot -- Moby Dick -- Crises of the Republic -- A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers) -- The Tenacity of Memory (La Tenacidad de la Memoria) -- Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers -- Rape as a War Crime -- The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda -- Facing into Truth: The Most Reverend Frank T. Griswold, XXV Presiding Bishop and Primate, the Episcopal Church, USA -- Zoroastrian Prayer -- CHAPTER 6. Reclaiming Our Selves: Gender and Violence -- Terror, Domination, and Partnership -- The Crowned Cannibals -- The Mind as Erotic Weapon -- The Birth of Plea sure -- A Woman's Side of the Story -- Please Listen to the Women of Iraq -- Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan -- Behind Bars -- Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link between Masculinity and Violence -- She Cannot Be Lost to Me -- Joining Prayers -- Serenity -- Acceptance Speech, Nobel Peace Prize -- Prayer of The Virgin of Guadalupe -- CHAPTER 7. Compassion and the Interdependence of Peace -- Compassion as the pillar of World Peace: His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama -- From Them to Us -- Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation -- Falling Bodies -- Forgive Us -- Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? -- Sustainability, Security, and Peace -- Wilenska -- On Forgiveness -- Good Friday World -- A Heart as Wide as the World -- A Task -- The Table of Peace -- The Courage to Wait -- Buddhist Meditation on Compassion -- In My Soul -- CHAPTER 8. Paths to Transformation -- Hope in The Dark -- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion -- Nonviolence: Weapon of the Brave, Weapon of the Future -- Ahimsa or the Way of Nonviolence -- Candles in Babylon -- On Citizen Diplomacy -- A New World Diplomacy -- On Courage and Resistance -- War Crimes Tribunal May End Impurity but They Can't Heal Hatred -- The Courage to Love -- At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace -- The Greatest Danger -- Thanks but No Thanks -- The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty -- The Generation of Trust -- Contributor Biographies -- Credits
Record Nr. UNINA-9910816399203321
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Understanding jihad / / David Cook
Understanding jihad / / David Cook
Autore Cook David <1966->
Edizione [Second edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (325 p.)
Disciplina 297.7/2
Soggetto topico Jihad
War - Religious aspects - Islam
Islamic fundamentalism
Islam - 21st century
Soggetto non controllato al qaida
arab spring
caliphate
contemporary islam
defense of islam
globalist radical islam
greater jihad
holy war
isil
isis
islam
islamic doctrine
islamic extremism
islamic fundamentalism
islamic religion
islamic studies
jihad ideology
jihad theory
jihad
jihadi culture
jihadi states
jihadism
koran
lesser jihad
muslim radicals
quran
radical islam
radical muslims
radicalism
religious history
religious terrorism
salafi jihadi
spiritual warfare
terrorism
ISBN 0-520-96249-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Qur'an and conquest -- The "greater jihad" and the "lesser jihad" -- The crystallization of jihad theory: crusade and counter-crusade -- Jihad during the nineteenth century: renewal and resistance -- Radical Islam and contemporary jihad theory -- Globalist radical Islam and martyrdom operations -- The rise of jihadi states.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910798070803321
Cook David <1966->  
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Understanding jihad / / David Cook
Understanding jihad / / David Cook
Autore Cook David <1966->
Edizione [Second edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (325 p.)
Disciplina 297.7/2
Soggetto topico Jihad
War - Religious aspects - Islam
Islamic fundamentalism
Islam - 21st century
Soggetto non controllato al qaida
arab spring
caliphate
contemporary islam
defense of islam
globalist radical islam
greater jihad
holy war
isil
isis
islam
islamic doctrine
islamic extremism
islamic fundamentalism
islamic religion
islamic studies
jihad ideology
jihad theory
jihad
jihadi culture
jihadi states
jihadism
koran
lesser jihad
muslim radicals
quran
radical islam
radical muslims
radicalism
religious history
religious terrorism
salafi jihadi
spiritual warfare
terrorism
ISBN 0-520-96249-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Qur'an and conquest -- The "greater jihad" and the "lesser jihad" -- The crystallization of jihad theory: crusade and counter-crusade -- Jihad during the nineteenth century: renewal and resistance -- Radical Islam and contemporary jihad theory -- Globalist radical Islam and martyrdom operations -- The rise of jihadi states.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910826767703321
Cook David <1966->  
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015]
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