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Faith, War, and Violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God, and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic spiritualism
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Introduction
Gabriel R. Ricci
1.'Abdullah'Azzm The Ideology behind Al-Q'ida
Asaf Maliach
2. The Arab Spring and the Religious Agenda
Jonathan Fine
3. Sikhism, the Seduction of Modernism, and the Question of Violence
Nicholas F. Gier
4. The Catholic Church, Violence, and the Nationalist Struggles in Ireland, 1798 1998
Oliver Rafferty, SJ
5. Responsibility and Limitation: The Early Christian Church and War
Darrell Cole
6. The Medieval Papacy and Holy War: General Crusading Letters and Papal Authority, 1145 1213
Rebecca Rist
7. "Generosity . . . in the Slavery of This Brave Cavalier": Sanctity Honor and Religious Violence in the French Mediterranean
Brian Sandberg
8. Deferral of War: The Religious Sign System of Ritual Violence
Christopher S. Morrissey
9. Martyrs of Liberty: Open-Air Preaching and Popular Violence in Victorian Britain and Ireland
Mark Doyle
10. Moral Injury: A Case Study in the Intersection of Religion and Violence
Kathryn McClymond and Anthony F. Lemieux
11. Marshall McLuhan and the Machiavellian Use of Religious Violence
Grant N. Havers
12. The Trenches of Capernaum, 1914 1918
Yves Pourcher
Contributors
About the author
Gabriel R. Ricci
Summary
Faith, War, and Violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God, and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic spiritualism
