Dying for Faith Religiously Motivated Violence in the Contemporary World

Klappentext From India to Iraq! from London to Lahore! the relationship between religion and violence is one of the most bitterly contested and casually misrepresented issues of our times. This groundbreaking volume brings together expert perspectives from a variety of fields to probe it. It seeks to shift analytical focus on to the contexts in which violence is expressed! enacted and reported. Ranging from Islam to Buddhism to new religious movements in the West! "Dying for Faith" offers a comprehensive and highly original account of a complex phenomenon that has so far attracted sensational media coverage but scant academic attention. Zusammenfassung From India to Iraq, from London to Lahore, the relationship between religion and violence is a bitterly contested and casually misrepresented issue. This volume brings together several perspectives from a variety of fields to probe it. It seeks to shift analytical focus on to the contexts in which violence is expressed, enacted and reported.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Madawi Shterin Al-Rasheed, Madawi Al-Rasheed, Marat Shterin
• Mitarbeit: Madawi Al-Rasheed (Herausgeber), Marat Shterin (Herausgeber), Shterin Marat (Herausgeber), Al-Rasheed Madawi (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Tauris, I.B.
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.2009
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Sozialstrukturforschung
• EAN: 9781845116873
• ISBN: 978-1-84511-687-3
• Anzahl Seiten: 256
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 15.4 x 23.2 x 1.8 cm
• Serie: Library of Modern Religion > 06
• Themen: RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Violence in society, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Violence and abuse in society