The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence
Format:Hardback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:18th Apr '11
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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
“To conclude, this survey of The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence indicates its breadth, and thus its value to those studying the religious ethics of violence and peace, and to those studying violence and peace in other disciplines ... The Companion will spur advanced students and academics to explore methodologies and historical-cultural examples with which they were only passingly familiar.” (Studies in Christian Ethics, 1 May 2013)
"This is an important reference work ... Highly recommended: upper-level graduates and above." (Choice, 1 December 2011)"This is a fascinating and enlightening book." (New Directions, 1 November 2011)
"Very impressive ... The contributors write from a variety of perspectives - sociological, anthropological, historical, economic - and cover between them a wide range of religious traditions ... Taken together, the chapters in this Companion show how different forms of religious faith (including Christianity) can be distorted, and then inspire acts of brutality and violence ... An indispensable tool for anyone seeking to bring clarity rather than rhetoric to this murky area." (Church Times, 21 October 2011)
"A curious and voracious reader of the (mostly accessible) essays found in The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence will learn a great deal about religion in its various cultural, economic, political and social manifestations, especially as these are related to violence." (The Tablet, 1 October 2011)
ISBN: 9781405191319
Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 36mm
Weight: 1288g
632 pages