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God Needs No Defense

Author : Thomas K. Johnson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666744328
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book God Needs No Defense written by Thomas K. Johnson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People of good will of every faith and nation should join hands and work in close cooperation, to help ensure that Islamic teachings are universally understood and applied in accord with its primary message of rahmah, and thus serve as a conduit through which God's infinite love and compassion may flow to all sentient beings. Given the current dynamics in the Muslim world -- and the institutional paralysis of the West, in the face of Muslim extremism -- this is admittedly an ambitious or even daunting endeavor. Yet for that very reason, it is a task worthy of anyone who feels the stirring of God's love in their breast, and the whispering of a conscience that refuses to yield all that is most precious in life to the forces of hatred, intimidation and violence."~ Former Indonesian president and Nahdlatul Ulama Chairman KH. Abdurrahman Wahid, Rahmah (Universal Love and Compassion)"I regard the work of Humanitarian Islam and the Movement for Shared Civilizational Values as one of the most pathbreaking and important developments in world politics and cross-civilizational ethics in our generation. No event that I know of is more timely, urgent, or well conceived."~ Robert Hefner, Professor of Anthropology & International Relations at Boston University and President, American Institute for Indonesian Studies

Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror

Author : Philippe Buc
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812290976
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror written by Philippe Buc and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror examines the ways that Christian theology has shaped centuries of conflict from the Jewish-Roman War of late antiquity through the First Crusade, the French Revolution, and up to the Iraq War. By isolating one factor among the many forces that converge in war—the essential tenets of Christian theology—Philippe Buc locates continuities in major episodes of violence perpetrated over the course of two millennia. Even in secularized or explicitly non-Christian societies, such as the Soviet Union of the Stalinist purges, social and political projects are tied to religious violence, and religious conceptual structures have influenced the ways violence is imagined, inhibited, perceived, and perpetrated. The patterns that emerge from this sweeping history upend commonplace assumptions about historical violence, while contextualizing and explaining some of its peculiarities. Buc addresses the culturally sanctioned logic that might lead a sane person to kill or die on principle, traces the circuitous reasoning that permits contradictory political actions, such as coercing freedom or pardoning war atrocities, and locates religious faith at the backbone of nationalist conflict. He reflects on the contemporary American ideology of war—one that wages violence in the name of abstract notions such as liberty and world peace and that he reveals to be deeply rooted in biblical notions. A work of extraordinary breadth, Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror connects the ancient past to the troubled present, showing how religious ideals of sacrifice and purification made violence meaningful throughout history.

René Girard's Mimetic Theory

Author : Wolfgang Palaver
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1609173651
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book René Girard's Mimetic Theory written by Wolfgang Palaver and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist René Girard, this essential text explains its three main pillars (mimetic desire, the scapegoat mechanism, and the Biblical “difference”) with the help of examples from literature and philosophy. This book also offers an overview of René Girard’s life and work, showing how much mimetic theory results from existential and spiritual insights into one’s own mimetic entanglements. Furthermore it examines the broader implications of Girard’s theories, from the mimetic aspect of sovereignty and wars to the relationship between the scapegoat mechanism and the question of capital punishment. Mimetic theory is placed within the context of current cultural and political debates like the relationship between religion and modernity, terrorism, the death penalty, and gender issues. Drawing textual examples from European literature (Cervantes, Shakespeare, Goethe, Kleist, Stendhal, Storm, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Proust) and philosophy (Plato, Camus, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, Vattimo), Palaver uses mimetic theory to explore the themes they present. A highly accessible book, this text is complemented by bibliographical references to Girard’s widespread work and secondary literature on mimetic theory and its applications, comprising a valuable bibliographical archive that provides the reader with an overview of the development and discussion of mimetic theory until the present day.

New Approaches to the Analysis of Jihadism

Author : Rüdiger Lohlker
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN 13 : 389971900X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis New Approaches to the Analysis of Jihadism by : Rüdiger Lohlker

Download or read book New Approaches to the Analysis of Jihadism written by Rüdiger Lohlker and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jihadism has been an important issue of public discussions since 9/11. Internet media have been used by Jihadis as means of communication, propaganda, recruitment, and even training purposes. In this volume, the processes of interaction on Jihadi internet sites are analysed. Particular attention lays on the mechanisms of spreading propaganda via the internet by diverse technical means. The process of transformation of Islamic knowledge into Jihadi knowledge, the rhetorics of videos, the development of South Asian Jihadi organisations and some conceptual issues are discussed.

Die Bedeutung der Religion für die Gesellschaft

Author : Anton Rauscher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Die Bedeutung der Religion für die Gesellschaft written by Anton Rauscher and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So besteht die Gefahr, die für die Christen maßgebliche Schöpfungswirklichkeit dem "demokratischen" Anspruch auf Gleichheit zu opfern. Die Beiträge machen deutlich, zu welchem Verlust dies für Staat und Gesellschaft führen würde, wenn Religion aus dem öffentlichen Leben verdrängt und zur Privatsache degradiert würde.

Wir teilen diesen Traum

Author : Paul M. Zulehner
Publisher : Patmos Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3843611165
Total Pages : 1407 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Wir teilen diesen Traum written by Paul M. Zulehner and published by Patmos Verlag. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 1407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papst Franziskus mutet der Kirche weit reichende Reformen zu. Von einer Revolution von oben ist die Rede. Er arbeitet synodal. Die Bischofskonferenzen wertet er auf. Barmherzigkeit ist zum Leitwort des Tuns der Kirche geworden. Sein Anliegen: Wunden heilen – jene der einzelnen Menschen, welche die Menschen einander (z.B. bei einer Scheidung) schlagen, die Wunden der Armen und jene der Schöpfung. Gegen seine Reform der Kirche erfährt er zunehmend Widerstand. Er wird der Häresie verdächtigt. Deshalb haben Tomáš Halík und Paul Zulehner einen Offenen Brief an den Papst verfasst, um ihn bei seiner Reform zu unterstützen. Über 75.000 Personen haben den Brief unterzeichnet. Nunmehr geben 150 Persönlichkeiten des akademischen Lebens dem Papst Unterstützung. Sie kommen aus allen Kontinenten der Weltkirche: von Taipei bis Sao Paolo, von Oxford bis Harvard, von Warschau bis London und Berlin. Die emotionale Unterstützung wird durch rationale Argumente ergänzt. ” In diesem E-Book werden nun alle 150 Beiträge dokumentiert. ” Paul M. Zulehner hat eine brisante Einleitung dazu verfasst. ----- Pope Francis wishes to see far-reaching reforms in the Church: A revolution from above is happening. His Holiness works synodally. He has upgraded the Conference of Bishops; 'mercy' has become the watchword for pastoral practice in the Church. The Pope is concerned with the healing of wounds – individual wounds, which we use to beat one another (in divorce cases for example), the wounds of the poor and those of creation. In his reform of the Church, the Pope faces increasing resistance, some suspect him of heresy. In response to this, Tomáš Halík and Paul Zulehner have written an open letter to the Pope in support of his reform. Over 75.000 people have signed the letter, including more than 150 prominent figures from the world of academia. These come from every corner of the Universal Church: from Taipei to Sao Paolo, from Oxford to Harvard, from Warsaw to London and Berlin. Emotional support is supported by reason. ” This book documents all 150 contributions. ” Paul M. Zulehner has written an explosive introduction.

Gewalt ohne Ausweg?

Author : Klaus Weinhauer
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3593397706
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Gewalt ohne Ausweg? written by Klaus Weinhauer and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorismus, so die Grundthese dieses Bandes, ist ein kommunikativer Akt. Die Gewalt ist kein Selbstzweck, sondern soll Botschaften transportieren und maximale Aufmerksamkeit erzielen. Die Beiträge des Bandes untersuchen die kommunikative Verflechtung terroristischer Gewalt mit staatlichem Handeln und der Mediengesellschaft. Analysiert werden Attentate im Russland und Frankreich des 19. ebenso wie der irische und baskische Terrorismus des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts oder die Roten Brigaden und die RAF. Dabei wird deutlich, dass gerade die Kommunikation zwischen Terroristen, Staat und Öffentlichkeit auch Chancen zur Deeskalation bietet.

Passions in Economy, Politics, and the Media

Author : Wolfgang Palaver
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825878221
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Passions in Economy, Politics, and the Media written by Wolfgang Palaver and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passions play an important role in economy, politics and the media. Recent discussions of the economy, for instance, do no longer hesitate to stress the importance of a passion like envy functioning as a driving force in this field. Also the world of advertising illustrates the impor- tance of passions in the economy. Modern forms of politics, on the contrary, claimed to be detached from passions and to rely solely on rationality. Recent developments since the end of the cold war, however, have clearly challenged this self-understanding of modern politics. Not even politics can escape the world of passions. In our days, both the economy and politics depend on the media, another example of a highly passionate realm. Passions also have an important religious dimension. One of the central questions of any great religion is how to deal with passions. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the phenomenon of passions in the fields of economy, politics, and the media, drawing on Re

Between Ethics and Politics: Lessons from Biafra

Author : Tobe Nnamani
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524611824
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Between Ethics and Politics: Lessons from Biafra written by Tobe Nnamani and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many years have elapsed since the demise of Biafra, it still remains an intractable unfinished business that seriously threatens the corporate existence of Nigeria. Most of the literature on Biafra tended to dwell more on the historical and political analysis of the war and how the factors that engendered it could be tackled. It appears however, that no ethical analysis of the issues involved in the Biafran war has been carried out in any significant academic endeavour, hence the reason and need for a critical analytical survey of the ethical and political implications of the role of the world community in the unprecedented events that took place in Biafra. The purpose of this book is, first, to understand the twist and turns of the events and issues involved in the Biafran crisis and the role the international community played in the war. Second is to articulate the complex nature of humanitarian intervention and to stress the relevance of ethics, its interpenetration, and tandem relationship with international relations on a broader level, and in particular, humanitarian intervention as a foreign policy action. The main claim of our argument is that ethics is part and parcel of international relations. Divorcing ethics from international relations leads to amorality that threatens the world order. In other words, it is argued that ethical considerations should guide international affairs and the undertaking of humanitarian intervention. Behind this basic thesis, the book defends the idea of a global ethic. Global ethic means an ethic which acknowledges respect for human life and the interconnectedness and interdependence of all human beings. It is an ethic which transcends the circumscribed confines of national boundaries and economic and geopolitical interests and opens them up to the larger urgent need, well-being, peaceful coexistence, and sustainability of the larger world community. Tobe Nnamani

A Transnational History of Right-Wing Terrorism

Author : Johannes Dafinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000548279
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Transnational History of Right-Wing Terrorism written by Johannes Dafinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Transnational History of Right-Wing Terrorism offers new insights into the history of right-wing extremism and violence in Europe, East and West, from 1900 until the present day. It is the first book to take such a broad historical approach to the topic. The book explores the transnational dimension of right-wing terrorism; networks of right-wing extremists across borders, including in exile; the trading of arms; the connection between right-wing terrorism and other forms of far-right political violence; as well as the role of supportive elements among fellow travelers, the state security apparatus, and political elites. It also examines various forms of organizational and ideological interconnectedness and what inspires right-wing terrorism. In addition to several empirical chapters on prewar extreme-right political violence, the book features extensive coverage of postwar right-wing terrorism including the recent resurgence in attacks. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of right-wing extremism, fascism, Nazism, terrorism, and political violence.

'Militant Islam' vs. 'Islamic Militancy'?

Author : Klaus Hock
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643912757
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book 'Militant Islam' vs. 'Islamic Militancy'? written by Klaus Hock and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2020 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourses on 'radical Islam, ' on 'Islamic extremism, ' or on 'religious violence' in Islamic contexts are en vogue - in and beyond academia. But in view of the highly contested topic of political Islam, the challenge starts already with the preferred terminology. What actually are we talking about when we talk about 'salafism, ' 'jihadism, ' 'Islamic terrorism, ' etc.? This edited volume provides a collection of contributions that due to their respective academic cultures and disciplinary locations display a multifaceted variety of approaches to the research field and its subject.

Islam in der Moderne, Moderne im Islam

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004364048
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Islam in der Moderne, Moderne im Islam written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift brings together a range of scholars who congratulate Reinhard Schulze on the occasion of his 65th birthday, by shedding light and reflecting on the relation between Islam and modernity. Scholars from the fields of Islamic studies, religious studies, sociology and Arabic literature connect in various ways to Reinhard Schulze’s work to constructively criticize a Eurocentric understanding of modernity. The more specific aspects dealt with under the overarching topic of Islam and modernity make for the four thematic sections of this volume: the study of religion, Islam, and Islamic studies; Islamic knowledge cultures and normativity; language and literature as media of modernity; Islam and Islamic studies in the public sphere. Die Beitragenden zu dieser Festschrift gratulieren Reinhard Schulze zu seinem 65. Geburtstag, indem sie mit der Beziehung zwischen Islam und Moderne ein Lebensthema des Jubilars beleuchten. Vertretende der Islamwissenschaft, Religionswissenschaft, Soziologie und der arabischen Literaturwissenschaft beziehen sich in verschiedener Hinsicht auf Reinhard Schulzes Werk, um ein eurozentrisches Verständnis von Moderne konstruktiv zu kritisieren. Die unter dem Oberthema Islam und Moderne näher behandelten Aspekte sind aus den vier thematischen Sektionen des Bandes ersichtlich: Islam(wissenschaft), Religion und der Eigensinn der Moderne; islamische Wissenskulturen und Normativität; Sprache und Literatur als Medien der Moderne; Islam(wissenschaft) in der Öffentlichkeit. Contributors are: Mona Abaza, Hüseyin Ağuiçenoğlu, Aziz al-Azmeh, Katajun Amirpur, Monica Corrado, Ahmad Dallal, Peter Dové, Susanne Enderwitz, Anne Grüne, Stephan Guth, Kai Hafez, Albrecht Hofheinz, Michael Kemper, Hans G. Kippenberg, Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz, Felix Konrad, Gudrun Krämer, Volkhard Krech, Anke von Kügelgen, Jamal Malik, Jürgen Paul, Frank Peter, Stefan Reichmuth, Armando Salvatore, Johannes Stephan, Anna Trechsel, Yves Wegelin, Florian Zemmin.

Menschenrechte, Kulturen und Gewalt

Author : Ludger Kühnhardt
Publisher : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Menschenrechte, Kulturen und Gewalt written by Ludger Kühnhardt and published by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. This book was released on 2005 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der interkulturelle Dialog zwischen dem Westen und ostasiatischen Intellektuellen ist von den geistigen Folgen der Auseinandersetzung mit dem internationalen Terrorismus nicht unberührt geblieben. Erstmals legen renommierte Geisteswissenschaftler aus Europa und Ostasien, ergänzt durch Stimmen aus den USA und aus der arabischen Welt, Reflexionen über Grundfragen im Schnittfeld von menschenrechtlichen Begriffen, kulturellen Deutungen und der Gewaltproblematik vor.

Religion and Politics in the United States and Germany

Author : Dagmar Pruin
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3825896226
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Politics in the United States and Germany written by Dagmar Pruin and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current interest in the relation of religion and politics is intense in both the US and Germany. Yet observers are regularly struck by fundamental divergences between approaches to and conceptualisations of this field on either side of the Atlantic. This volume, containing contributions by German and US authors from various disciplinary backgrounds, seeks to offer some clarification by elucidating traditional and newly emerging differences between, but also common challenges to, these societies in issues such as pluralism of values, religious education, the role of religious minorities, the relation of religion and elite formation, and religious aspects of voting patterns.

Victimhood and Acknowledgement

Author : Petra Terhoeven
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110581507
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Victimhood and Acknowledgement written by Petra Terhoeven and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of terrorism has been largely a history of perpetrators, their motives and actions. The history of their victims has always seemed to be of secondary importance. But terrorism is communication by violence, and its efficiency depends significantly on the selection and the treatment of the victims by the perpetrators, on the one hand, and the perception and acknowledgement of victimhood by the public, on the other. How does it affect our picture of the history of terrorism then, if the victims are moved centre stage? If the focus is put on their suffering, their agency, their helplessness, or on how they are acknowledged or exploited by society, politics and media? If the central role is taken into account which they play in terrorist propaganda as well as in the emotional response of the public? The contributions to this edition of the European History Yearbook will examine such questions in a broad range of historical case studies and methods, including visual history. Not least, they aim at historicizing the roles of survivors and relatives in the social process of coming to terms with terrorist violence, a question highly relevant up to the present day.

Control of Violence

Author : Wilhelm Heitmeyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441903836
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Control of Violence written by Wilhelm Heitmeyer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Control of Violence in Modern Society, starts from the hypothesis that in modern society we will face an increasing loss of control over certain phenomena of violence. This leads to unpredictable escalations and violence can no longer be contained adequately by the relevant control regimes, such as police, state surveillance institutions, national repression apparatuses and international law. However, before investigating this hypothesis from an internationally and historically comparative perspective, the terms and "tools" for this undertaking have to be rendered more precisely. Since both "control" and "violence" are all but clear-cut terms but rather highly debatable and contested concepts that may take multiple connotations. The main question is whether an increase in certain forms of violence can be explained by the failure or, in turn, "overeffectiveness" of certain control mechanisms. It is asked, for instance, which contribution religion can make to limit violence and, in turn, which destructive potential religion might have in its fundamentalist form. Moreover, the concept of individual self-control as well as social institutions and strategies of collective disengagement and de-radicalization are investigated with regard to their potential for controlling violence. The Control of Violence in Modern Society concludes with a re-examination of the hypothesis of a loss of control by specifying in what cases and under which circumstances we can speak of a loss of control over violence.

Fremde, Feinde und Kurioses

Author : Benjamin Jokisch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110192322
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Fremde, Feinde und Kurioses written by Benjamin Jokisch and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East are published as supplement to Der Islam founded in 1910 by Carl Heinrich Becker, an early practitioner of the modern study of Islam. The mission of the series is the study of past societies of the Middle East, their belief systems, and their underlying social and economic relations - in their aim to cover the entire spectrum of the historically oriented humanities and social sciences.