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Confronting Genocide

Judaism, Christianity, Islam

von: Steven Leonard Jacobs
52,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	16.05.2009
ISBN/EAN:	9780739135907
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	350

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Titelbeschreibung

Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam is the first collection of essays by recognized scholars primarily in the field of religious studies to address this timely topic. In addition to theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Sudan from their own unique vantage point. In so doing, they supply a much needed additional contribution to the ongoing conversations proffered by historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and legal scholars regarding prevention, intervention, and punishment.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

Confronting Genocide is the first collection of essays by recognized scholars primarily in the field of religious studies to address this timely topic. In addition to theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Sudan from their own unique vantage point.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction: Genocide in the Name of God: Thoughts on Religion and Genocide
 Chapter 2
 Chapter I. Textual Warrants for Genocide
 Chapter 3 1. Theological Warrants for Genocide
 Chapter 4 2. The Last Uncomfortable Religious Question? Monotheistic Exclusivism and Textual Superiority in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as Sources of Hate and Genocide
 Chapter 5 3. A Sweet-Smelling Sacrifice: Genocide, the Bible, and the Indigenous Peoples of the United States, Selected Examples
 Chapter 6 4. The Accountability of Religion in Genocide
 Chapter 7 5. More than the Jews: His Blood Be Upon All the Children: Biblical Violence, Bosnian Genocide, and Responsible Reading
 Chapter 8
 Chapter II. Religion and Mass Violence: Empirical Data and Case Studies
 Chapter 9 6. Religion and Genocide
 Chapter 10 7. Jihad and Genocide: The Case of the Armenians
 Chapter 11 8. Islam and Genocide: The Case of Bangladesh in 1971
 Chapter 12 9. The Genocidal Twentieth Century in the Balkans
 Chapter 13 10. Death was everywhere, even in front of the church: Christian Faith and the Rwandan Genocide
 Chapter 14
 Chapter III. Alternative Readings of Troubling Texts: Religion as a Force against Violence
 Chapter 15 11. Getting Rid of the G-d of Abraham: A Prerequisite for Genocide
 Chapter 16 12. The Ten Commandments, the Holocaust, and Reflections on Genocide
 Chapter 17 13. Coming to Terms with Amalek: Testing the Limits of Hospitality
 Chapter 18
 Chapter IV. Theologies and Practices of Reconciliation
 Chapter 19 14. Post-Shoah Restitution of a Different Kind
 Chapter 20 15. The Holocaust, Genocide, and the Catholic Church
 Chapter 21 16. Catholic Perspectives on Holocaust and Genocide: Critical Appraisal
 Chapter 22 17. Terror out of Zion: Making Sense of Scriptural Teaching
 Chapter 23 18. Rape, Religion, and Genocide: An Unholy Silence

Autorenportrait

Steven Leonard Jacobs is associate professor of religious studies and holds the Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama.