Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence

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).

• Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xvIntroduction 1Andrew R. MurphyPart I “Religion” and “Violence”: Defining Terms, Defining Relationships 51 Religion and Violence: Coming to Terms with Terms 7John D. Carlson2 The Myth of Religious Violence 23William T. CavanaughPart II Disciplinary Perspectives 353 Religion and Violence: An Economic Approach 37Anthony Gill4 Religion, Identity, and Violence: Some Theoretical Reflections 50Aziz Esmail5 Anthropological Reflections on Religion and Violence 66Bettina E. Schmidt6 Spiritual Devotion and Self-Annihilation: An Evolutionary Perspective 76Ariel Glucklich7 The Sociology of Religious Violence 89Charles Selengut8 Religion, Law, and Violence 99David E. Guinn9 Mediating Religious Violence 112Jolyon Mitchell10 Gender in the Production of Religious and Secular Violence 125Janet R. Jakobsen11 Explaining Religious Violence: Retrospects and Prospects 137Hector AvalosPart III Traditions and Movements, Concepts and Themes 14712 Christianity and Violence 149Jonathan Ebel13 Genesis 34 and the Legacies of Biblical Violence 163Elliott Horowitz14 Islam and Violence 183Beverley Milton-Edwards15 Religion and Violence in Hindu Traditions 196Jeffery D. Long16 Buddhism and Symbolic Violence 211Bernard Faure17 Religion, Violence, and Shintō 227Walter A. Skya18 Confucian Ethical Action and the Boundaries of Peace and War 237Don J. Wyatt19 Violence in Chinese Religious Culture 249Barend J. ter Haar20 The Dialectic of Violence in Jainism 263Christopher Key Chapple21 Just War and Jihad of the Sword 271James Turner Johnson22 Jihad and Martyrdom in Classical and Contemporary Islam 282David Cook23 Sacred Terror: The Psychology of Contemporary Religious Terrorism 293James W. Jones24 The Transformation of Failure and the Spiritualization of Violence 304Ian Reader25 Sacrifice and Violence 320Kathryn McClymond26 History, Humiliation, and Religious Violence 331Ellen Posman27 Reconceptualizing Totalitarianism and Fascism 343Robert ImrePart IV Case Studies: Religion and Violence, Past and Present 35528 Enduring the Sacred Scars of Slavery 357Yolanda Pierce29 South Asia: From Colonial Categories to a Crisis of Faith? 367Yasmin Khan30 Gender, Religion, and Violence during the Holocaust 379Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz31 Women in the Śāstric Tradition: Colonialism, Law, and Violence 389Nandini Bhattacharyya-Panda32 Biblical Metaphors for Interventionism in the Spanish-American War 406Matthew McCullough33 Sudan: Religion and Conflict 417Jok Madut Jok34 The Battle for Australia: Salvation and Conquest 424Marion Maddox35 Fundamentalist Violence and Women: Iran, Afghanistan, and Algeria 439Valentine M. Moghadam36 Anti-Jewish Violence in Late Imperial Russia 451Robert Weinberg37 Religion, Pluralism, and Conflicts in the Pacific Islands 461Yannick Fer38 Ritual Violence and Violent Ritual in Chinese Popular Religion 473Avron Boretz39 The Politics of Protestant Violence: Abolitionists and Anti-Abortionists 485Joel Olson40 Colonialism and Civil War: Religion and Violence in East Africa 498Ben Jones41 Rethinking Religion and Violence in the Middle East 511Jeroen Gunning42 Cromwell, Mather, and the Rhetoric of Puritan Violence 524Andrew R. MurphyPart V Future Prospects: Beyond Violence? 53943 Liberation Theology and the Spiral of Violence 541Thia Cooper44 Religion and Nonviolence in American History 554Ira Chernus45 Religious Peacebuilding 568María Pilar AquinoIndex 594

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