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Language: en
Pages: 203
Pages: 203
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-24 - Publisher: Hackett Publishing
"This rich and engaging book looks at instances of sanctified violence, the holy wars related to religion. It covers it all, from ancient to present day, includ
Language: en
Pages: 262
Pages: 262
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-11-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book focuses on oath-making narratives in the Iliad, through which it articulates a theory of ritualized violence.
Language: en
Pages: 261
Pages: 261
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Sanctified Aggression allies itself neither with the easy assumption that religions are by definition violent (and that only the secular/humanist/humane can off
Language: en
Pages: 300
Pages: 300
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: BRILL
This volume analyzes the emergence of Jewish and Christian discourses of religious violence within their Roman imperial context with an emphasis on the shared t
Language: en
Pages: 931
Pages: 931
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Employs the sectarian battles which divided African Christians in late antiquity to explore the nature of violence in religious conflicts.