Ebook: The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence

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

Content:
Chapter 1 Religion and Violence: Coming to Terms with Terms (pages 5–22): John D. Carlson
Chapter 2 The Myth of Religious Violence (pages 23–33): William T. Cavanaugh
Chapter 3 Religion and Violence: An Economic Approach (pages 35–49): Anthony Gill
Chapter 4 Religion, Identity, and Violence: Some Theoretical Reflections (pages 50–65): Aziz Esmail
Chapter 5 Anthropological Reflections on Religion and Violence (pages 66–75): Bettina E. Schmidt
Chapter 6 Spiritual Devotion and Self?Annihilation: An Evolutionary Perspective (pages 76–88): Ariel Glucklich
Chapter 7 The Sociology of Religious Violence (pages 89–98): Charles Selengut
Chapter 8 Religion, Law, and Violence (pages 99–111): David E. Guinn
Chapter 9 Mediating Religious Violence (pages 112–124): Jolyon Mitchell
Chapter 10 Gender in the Production of Religious and Secular Violence (pages 125–136): Janet R. Jakobsen
Chapter 11 Explaining Religious Violence: Retrospects and Prospects (pages 137–146): Hector Avalos
Chapter 12 Christianity and Violence (pages 147–162): Jonathan Ebel
Chapter 13 Genesis 34 and the Legacies of Biblical Violence (pages 163–182): Elliott Horowitz
Chapter 14 Islam and Violence (pages 183–195): Beverley Milton?Edwards
Chapter 15 Religion and Violence in Hindu Traditions (pages 196–210): Jeffery D. Long
Chapter 16 Buddhism and Symbolic Violence (pages 211–226): Bernard Faure
Chapter 17 Religion, Violence, and Shinto (pages 227–236): Walter A. Skya
Chapter 18 Confucian Ethical Action and the Boundaries of Peace and War (pages 237–248): Don J. Wyatt
Chapter 19 Violence in Chinese Religious Culture (pages 249–262): Barend J. ter Haar
Chapter 20 The Dialectic of Violence in Jainism (pages 263–270): Christopher Key Chapple
Chapter 21 Just War and Jihad of the Sword (pages 271–281): James Turner Johnson
Chapter 22 Jihad and Martyrdom in Classical and Contemporary Islam (pages 282–292): David Cook
Chapter 23 Sacred Terror: The Psychology of Contemporary Religious Terrorism (pages 293–303): James W. Jones
Chapter 24 The Transformation of Failure and the Spiritualization of Violence (pages 304–319): Ian Reader
Chapter 25 Sacrifice and Violence (pages 320–330): Kathryn McClymond
Chapter 26 History, Humiliation, and Religious Violence (pages 331–342): Ellen Posman
Chapter 27 Reconceptualizing Totalitarianism and Fascism (pages 343–353): Robert Imre
Chapter 28 Enduring the Sacred Scars of Slavery (pages 355–366): Yolanda Pierce
Chapter 29 South Asia: From Colonial Categories to a Crisis of Faith? (pages 367–378): Yasmin Khan
Chapter 30 Gender, Religion, and Violence during the Holocaust (pages 379–388): Judith Tydor Baumel?Schwartz
Chapter 31 Women in the Sastric Tradition: Colonialism, Law, and Violence (pages 389–405): Nandini Bhattacharyya?Panda
Chapter 32 Biblical Metaphors for Interventionism in the Spanish?American War (pages 406–416): Matthew McCullough
Chapter 33 Sudan: Religion and Conflict (pages 417–423): Jok Madut Jok
Chapter 34 The Battle for Australia: Salvation and Conquest (pages 424–438): Marion Maddox
Chapter 35 Fundamentalist Violence and Women: Iran, Afghanistan, and Algeria (pages 439–450): Valentine M. Moghadam
Chapter 36 Anti?Jewish Violence in Late Imperial Russia (pages 451–460): Robert Weinberg
Chapter 37 Religion, Pluralism, and Conflicts in the Pacific Islands (pages 461–472): Yannick Fer
Chapter 38 Ritual Violence and Violent Ritual in Chinese Popular Religion (pages 473–484): Avron Boretz
Chapter 39 The Politics of Protestant Violence: Abolitionists and Anti?Abortionists (pages 485–497): Joel Olson
Chapter 40 Colonialism and Civil War: Religion and Violence in East Africa (pages 498–510): Ben Jones
Chapter 41 Rethinking Religion and Violence in the Middle East (pages 511–523): Jeroen Gunning
Chapter 42 Cromwell, Mather, and the Rhetoric of Puritan Violence (pages 524–537): Andrew R. Murphy
Chapter 43 Liberation Theology and the Spiral of Violence (pages 539–553): Thia Cooper
Chapter 44 Religion and Nonviolence in American History (pages 554–567): Ira Chernus
Chapter 45 Religious Peacebuilding (pages 568–593): Maria Pilar Aquino