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Informationen zum Autor Madawi Al-Rasheed is Professor of Anthropology of Religion at King's College London. Marat Shterin is a Lectuer in Theology and Religious Studies at King's College, London. Klappentext 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. Vorwort 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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Contributors Foreign words Introduction Madawi Al-Rasheed and Marat Shterin, Between death of faith and dying for faith: reflections on religion, politics, society and violence Part I: Understanding religiously motivated violenceChapter 1 Apocalypse, history, and the empire of modernityJohn Hall Chapter 2 Martyrs and martial imagery: exploring the volatile link between warfare frames and religious violence Stuart WrightChapter 3 Violence and new religions: an assessment of problems, progress, and prospects in understanding the NRM-violence connection J. Gordon Melton and David G. BromleyChapter 4 Of ‘cultists’ and ‘martyrs’: the study of new religious movements and suicide terrorism in conversationMassimo Introvigne Chapter 5 In God’s name: practising unconditional love to the deathEileen BarkerChapter 6 The terror of belief and the belief in terror: on violently serving God and nation Abdelwahhab El-AffendiPart II: Religiously motivated violence in specific contextsChapter 7 Rituals of life and death: the politics and poetics of jihad in Saudi ArabiaMadawi Al-Rasheed Chapter 8 The Islamic debate over self-inflicted martyrdom Azam Tamimi Chapter 9 The radical nineties revisited: jihadi discourses in Britain Jonathan Birt Chapter 11 al-Shahada: a centre of the Shiite system of belief Fouad Ibrahim Chapter 12 Urban unrest and non-religious radicalization in Saudi ArabiaPascal Ménoret and Awadh al-UtaybiChapter 13 Bodily punishments and the spiritually transcendent dimensions of violence: a Zen Buddhist example Ian Reader Chapter 14 Jewish millennialism and violence Simon Dein Part III: Reporting religiously motivated violenceChapter 15 Sacral violence: cosmologies and imaginaries of killing Neil WhiteheadChapter 16 Journalists as eyewitnesses Noha MellorChapter 17 Understanding religious violence: can the media be trusted to explain? Mark HubandIndex...
