The path to salvation religious violence from the Crusades to Jihad
"In the wake of 9/11, policy analysts, journalists, and academics have tried to make sense of the rise of militant Islam, particularly its role as a motivating and legitimating force for violence against the United States. The general perception is that Islam is more violence prone than other r...
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[Dulles, VA]
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Religion: love, peace, and the two salvations
- The causes of religious violence: from social movements to hastening the apocalypse
- The Christian crusades: from pilgrims to holy warriors
- Ayodhya: the Hindu nationalist battle for hindutva
- Buddhist violence in sri lanka: defending the dhammadipa
- Defending the dar al Islam: jihad in the nineteenth century and today
- Zion: the battle to define the Jewish nation and state
- How religious violence ends: spiritualizing the battle