The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Murphy, Andrew R.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444395723
• Artikelnr.: 38306148

Autorenporträt

Andrew R. Murphy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His research focuses on the interconnections between religious and political thought and practice, most particularly in the Anglo-American tradition. He is the author of Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America (2001) and Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11 (2009); he is editor or co-editor of The Political Writings of William Penn (2002), Religion, Politics, and American Identity: New Directions, New Controversies (2006); and Literature, Culture, Tolerance (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Andrew R. Murphy
(Rutgers) Part I: "Religion" and "Violence": Defining Terms, Defining
Relationships Part II: Disciplinary Perspectives Part III: Traditions and
Movements, Concepts and Themes Part IV: Case Studies: Religion and
Violence, Past and Present Part V: Future Prospects: Beyond Violence? Index