Dying for Faith
Religiously Motivated Violence in the Contemporary World
Published on 30. April 2009
256 pages
978-0-85771-223-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
File size
2,09 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85771-223-3 (9780857712233)
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Religiously Motivated Violence in the Contemporary World
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Content
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 violence
Chapter 1 Apocalypse, history, and the empire of modernity
John Hall
Chapter 2 Martyrs and martial imagery: exploring the volatile link between warfare frames and religious violence
Stuart Wright
Chapter 3 Violence and new religions: an assessment of problems, progress, and prospects in understanding the NRM-violence connection
J. Gordon Melton and David G. Bromley
Chapter 4 Of 'cultists' and 'martyrs': the study of new religious movements and suicide terrorism in conversation
Massimo Introvigne
Chapter 5 In God's name: practising unconditional love to the death
Eileen Barker
Chapter 6 The terror of belief and the belief in terror: on violently serving God and nation
Abdelwahhab El-Affendi
Part II: Religiously motivated violence in specific contexts
Chapter 7 Rituals of life and death: the politics and poetics of jihad in Saudi Arabia
Madawi 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 Arabia
Pascal Menoret and Awadh al-Utaybi
Chapter 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 violence
Chapter 15 Sacral violence: cosmologies and imaginaries of killing
Neil Whitehead
Chapter 16 Journalists as eyewitnesses
Noha Mellor
Chapter 17 Understanding religious violence: can the media be trusted to explain?
Mark Huband
Index
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 violence
Chapter 1 Apocalypse, history, and the empire of modernity
John Hall
Chapter 2 Martyrs and martial imagery: exploring the volatile link between warfare frames and religious violence
Stuart Wright
Chapter 3 Violence and new religions: an assessment of problems, progress, and prospects in understanding the NRM-violence connection
J. Gordon Melton and David G. Bromley
Chapter 4 Of 'cultists' and 'martyrs': the study of new religious movements and suicide terrorism in conversation
Massimo Introvigne
Chapter 5 In God's name: practising unconditional love to the death
Eileen Barker
Chapter 6 The terror of belief and the belief in terror: on violently serving God and nation
Abdelwahhab El-Affendi
Part II: Religiously motivated violence in specific contexts
Chapter 7 Rituals of life and death: the politics and poetics of jihad in Saudi Arabia
Madawi 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 Arabia
Pascal Menoret and Awadh al-Utaybi
Chapter 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 violence
Chapter 15 Sacral violence: cosmologies and imaginaries of killing
Neil Whitehead
Chapter 16 Journalists as eyewitnesses
Noha Mellor
Chapter 17 Understanding religious violence: can the media be trusted to explain?
Mark Huband
Index
