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[UNTITLED] Oxford Handbooks Online [UNTITLED] The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence Edited by Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Margo Kitts Print Publication Date: Jan 2013 Subject: Religion Online Publication Date: Mar 2013 (p. iv) Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 © Oxford University Press 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Page 1 of 2 [UNTITLED] The Oxford handbook of religion and violence / edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts, and Michael Jerryson. p. cm. Includes index.ISBN 978–0–19–975999–6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Violence— Religious aspects. I. Juergensmeyer, Mark. II. Kitts, Margo, 1952– III. Jerryson, Michael K. IV. Title: Handbook of religion and violence. BL65.V55O94 2013201'.76332—dc23 2012012032 ISBN 978–0–19–975999–6 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Page 2 of 2 Contents Go to page: Front Matter [UNTITLED] Contributors Introduction: The Enduring Relationship of Religion and Violence Margo Kitts, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Michael Jerryson Overview of Religious Traditions Violence and Nonviolence at the Heart of Hindu Ethics Veena Das Buddhist Traditions and Violence Michael Jerryson Sikh Traditions and Violence Cynthia Keppley Mahmood Religion and Violence in the Jewish Traditions Ron E. Hassner and Gideon Aran Religion and Violence in Christian Traditions Lloyd Steffen Muslim Engagement with Injustice and Violence Bruce B. Lawrence African Traditional Religion and Violence Nathalie Wlodarczyk Religion and Violence in Pacific Island Societies Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart Violence in Chinese Religious Traditions Meir Shahar Patterns and Themes The Religious Problem of Evil James Aho Sacrifice/Human Sacrifice in Religious Traditions Davíd Carrasco Martyrdom in Islam David Cook Starvation and SelfMutilation in Religious Traditions Liz Wilson Apocalyptic Religion and Violence Jamel Velji Cosmic War in Religious Traditions Reza Aslan Genocide and the Religious Imaginary in Rwanda Christopher C. Taylor Religious Terrorism as Performance Violence Mark Juergensmeyer Christianity and Torture Karen L. King Just War and Legal Restraints John Kelsay Religiously Motivated Violence in the Abortion Debate Julie Ingersoll Conflicts over Sacred Ground Ron E. Hassner Religion and Political Violence Monica Duffy Toft Rituals of Death and Remembrance Susumu Shimazono and Margo Kitts Violent Death in Religious Imagination Margo Kitts Analytic Approaches Religion and Violence from a Sociological Perspective John R. Hall Religion and Violence from an Anthropological Perspective Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern Religion and Violence from a Psychological Perspective James W. Jones Religion and Violence from a Political Science Perspective Daniel Philpott Religion and Violence from Literary Perspectives Margo Kitts Religion and Violence from Christian Theological Perspectives Charles Kimball New Directions Sacrificial Violence: A Problem in Ancient Religions Walter Burkert Cities as One Site for Religion and Violence Saskia Sassen Armageddon in Christian, Sunni, and Shia Traditions Michael A. Sells Phenomenal Violence and the Philosophy of Religion Hent De Vries The Construction of Evil and the Violence of Purification David Frankfurter Mimetic Theories of Religion and Violence Wolfgang Palaver Religion and Scarcity: A New Theory for the Role of Religion in Violence Hector Avalos Ritual, Religion, and Violence: An Evolutionary Perspective Candace S. Alcorta and Richard Sosis Divergent Modes of Religiosity and Armed Struggle Harvey Whitehouse and Brian Mcquinn A Sociotheological Approach to Understanding Religious Violence Mark Juergensmeyer and Mona Kanwal Sheikh End Matter Index Contributors Oxford Handbooks Online Contributors The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence Edited by Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Margo Kitts Print Publication Date: Jan 2013 Subject: Religion Online Publication Date: Mar 2013 Contributors (p. ix) James Aho is professor emeritus of sociology at Idaho State University, Pocatello. He is author of many books, his latest being Sociological Trespasses: Interrogating Sin and Flesh. Candace S. Alcorta is a research scientist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Alcorta has conducted research in Thailand and the United States on impacts of religion on adolescent resilience. Her published works include articles on the evolution of religion, religion and adolescent brain development, and other related topics. Gideon Aran is a professor of sociology and anthropology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, specializing in religious and political extremism. His forthcoming publication is The Cult of Dismembered Limbs: Suicide Terrorism, Radical Religion, Contemporary Judaism, Body, Death and the Middle East Conflict. Reza Aslan is associate professor of creative writing at University California at Riverside and author of No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. Page 1 of 10 Contributors Hector Avalos is professor of religious studies at Iowa State University. He is the author of Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence (2005) and Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarship (2011). Walter Burkert is professor emeritus of classics at the University of Zürich. He writes on religion and philosophy from an anthropological perspective (Homo Necans, 1972, English ed. 1983), and on Oriental-Greek interrelations (Babylon Memphis Persepolis, 2004). Davíd Carrasco is a historian of religions and the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of Latin America and director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive at Harvard University. He is author or editor of more than twenty books including City of Sacrifice, Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire, The History of the Conquest of New Spain, Waiting for the Dawn: Mircea Eliade in Perspective, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. David Cook is associate professor of religious studies at Rice University. He is author or editor of six books, including Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic, Understanding Jihad, and Martyrdom in Islam, and numerous articles on Islamic history, apocalyptic literature, and contemporary radical thought. (p. x) Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and professor of humanities at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author, among other books, of Structure and Cognition: Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual, Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India, and Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary. Page 2 of 10 Contributors David Frankfurter is professor of religion and Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University and has published widely on Christianization and popular religion in Roman antiquity, addressing such themes as magic, demonology, domestic religion, ritual, and violence. His book Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History (2006) won the 2007 American Academy of Religion award for analytic/descriptive studies in religion. John R. Hall is a professor in the Department of Sociology and a member of the graduate group in religious studies at the University of California, Davis. He has published extensively on issues of culture, religion, utopia, social theory, and epistemology. His most recent book is Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity (2009). Ron E. Hassner is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley and co-director of its Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program. He is the author of War on Sacred Grounds (2009) as well as multiple articles on religion and conflict. Julie Ingersoll is associate professor of religious studies at the University of North Florida where she teaches and writes about evangelicalism, fundamentalism, and the religious right. She is the author of two books, Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles (2003) and Baptists and Methodists in America (2003) and currently has a book under contract with Oxford University Press on Christian reconstruction. Page 3 of 10 Contributors Michael Jerryson is assistant professor of religious studies at Eckerd College, Florida. He is the author of Mongolian Buddhism: The Rise and Fall of the Sangha (2008), Buddhist Fury: Religion and Violence in Southern Thailand (2011), and co- editor with Mark Juergensmeyer of Buddhist Warfare (2010). James W. Jones is professor of religion and adjunct professor of clinical psychology at Rutgers University and a senior research fellow at the Center on Terrorism at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. He is the author of Blood That Cries Out from the Earth: The Psychology of Religious Terrorism and Terror and Transformation: The Ambiguity of Religion and co-author of The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychology, Religion and Violence. Mark Juergensmeyer is professor of sociology and global studies and director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author or editor of more than twenty books, including Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence and Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State. (p. xi) John Kelsay is Bristol Distinguished Professor of Religion and Ethics at Florida State University, where he also serves as associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. His most recent book is Arguing the Just War in Islam (2007). Charles Kimball is presidential professor and director of the religious studies program at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. He is the author of five books, including When Religion Becomes Evil: Five Warning Signs and When Religion Becomes Lethal: The Explosive Mix of Politics and Religion in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Page 4 of 10
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