Gods and Arms: On Religion and Armed Conflict
This book brings together a variety of perspectives on how religion can be related to violence and war - both in a destructive and constructive way. Religion can justify and mobilize violence - even terrorism or guerilla wars - just like political ideology. But how is such a link between religion and violent behavior established in the first place? How can we go further in understanding this possible connection between religion and war?

Is religious peace work just the flip side of religious support of war? Or can peace work be informed by knowing about how religion promotes violence and war? In the search for answers to the puzzle of religion and war, it is easy to focus on conflict and war situations, but maybe there is as much to learn from peace work as from war studies? Therefore, this book also analyses religious peace work from different contexts.

The multifaceted presence of religion in conflict situations - whether justifying violence or promoting peace - is illustrated in this book using a variety of situations, in an enlightening panorama of one of today's must puzzling social connections: religion and armed conflict.

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Gods and Arms: On Religion and Armed Conflict
This book brings together a variety of perspectives on how religion can be related to violence and war - both in a destructive and constructive way. Religion can justify and mobilize violence - even terrorism or guerilla wars - just like political ideology. But how is such a link between religion and violent behavior established in the first place? How can we go further in understanding this possible connection between religion and war?

Is religious peace work just the flip side of religious support of war? Or can peace work be informed by knowing about how religion promotes violence and war? In the search for answers to the puzzle of religion and war, it is easy to focus on conflict and war situations, but maybe there is as much to learn from peace work as from war studies? Therefore, this book also analyses religious peace work from different contexts.

The multifaceted presence of religion in conflict situations - whether justifying violence or promoting peace - is illustrated in this book using a variety of situations, in an enlightening panorama of one of today's must puzzling social connections: religion and armed conflict.

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Gods and Arms: On Religion and Armed Conflict

Gods and Arms: On Religion and Armed Conflict

by Kjell-?ke Nordquist
Gods and Arms: On Religion and Armed Conflict

Gods and Arms: On Religion and Armed Conflict

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This book brings together a variety of perspectives on how religion can be related to violence and war - both in a destructive and constructive way. Religion can justify and mobilize violence - even terrorism or guerilla wars - just like political ideology. But how is such a link between religion and violent behavior established in the first place? How can we go further in understanding this possible connection between religion and war?

Is religious peace work just the flip side of religious support of war? Or can peace work be informed by knowing about how religion promotes violence and war? In the search for answers to the puzzle of religion and war, it is easy to focus on conflict and war situations, but maybe there is as much to learn from peace work as from war studies? Therefore, this book also analyses religious peace work from different contexts.

The multifaceted presence of religion in conflict situations - whether justifying violence or promoting peace - is illustrated in this book using a variety of situations, in an enlightening panorama of one of today's must puzzling social connections: religion and armed conflict.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780718893163
Publisher: Lutterworth Press, The
Publication date: 06/27/2013
Pages: 174
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Kjell-Åke Nordquist - Visiting Professor, Stockholm School of Theology, Stockholm, Sweden and Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Table of Contents

Table of Contents:
Contributors
Preface
1 Religion, Fundamentalism, and Conflict - R. Scott
Appleby
2 Religion in the Global Jihadi War - Mark
Juergensmeyer
3 Apocalyptic Speculations and the War of
Armageddon - Göran Gunner
4 “It Was the Work of Satan”: Perpetrators
Rationalize the Atrocities of the Rwanda
Genocide - Anne N. Kubai
5 In Search of Grace: Religion and the ELN -
Jennifer Schirmer
6 Religion, Conflict, and Peace-Building: The Case of Sri Lanka - Mariyahl Hoole, Nari
Senanayake, and Jehan Perera
7 “Peacemakers” from the “Bridge Church”: The
Anglican Church as A Third Party in
Palestine 1920-1948 - Maria Småberg
8 Linking War and Religion: Some Observations -
Kjell-Åke Nordquist
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