The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence

Content: Part I. "Religion" and "violence" : defining terms, defining relationships. 1 Religion and violence : coming to terms with terms / John D. Carlson --
2 The myth of religious violence / William T. Cavanaugh. Part II. Disciplinary perspectives. 3 Religion and violence : an economic approach / Anthony Gill --
4 Religion, identity, and violence : some therorectical reflections / Aziz Esmail --
5 Anthropological reflections on religion and violence / Bettina E. Schmidt --
6 Spiritual devotion and self-annihilation: an evolutionary perspective / Ariel Glucklich --
7 The sociology of religious violence / Charles Selengut --
8 Religion, law, and violence / David E. Guinn --
9 Mediating Religious Violence / Jolyon Mitchell --
10 Gender in the production of religious and secular violence / Janet R. Jakobsen --
11 Explaining religious violence: retrospects and prospects / Hector Avalos. Part III. Traditions and movements, concepts and themes. 12 Christianity and violence / Jonathan Ebel --
13 Genesis 34 and the legacies of biblical violence / Elliott Horowitz --
14 Islam and violence / Beverley Milton-Edwards --
15 Religion and violence in Hindu traditions / Jeffery D. Long --
16 Buddhism and symbolic violence / Bernard Faure --
17 Religion, violence, and Shinto / Walter A. Skya --
18 Confucian ethical action and the boundaries of peace and war / Don J. Wyatt --
19. Violence in Chinese Religious Culture / Barend J. ter Haar --
20. The Dialectic of Violence in Jainism / Christopher Chapple --
21. Just War and Jihad of the Sword / James Turner Johnson --
22. Jihad and Martyrdom in Classical and Contemporary Islam / David Cook --
23. The Psychology of Contemporary Religious Terrorism / James W. Jones --
24. Pragmatic Responses: the Transformation of Failure and the Spiritualisation of Violence / Ian Reader --
25. Sacrifice and Violence / Kathryn McClymond --
26. History, Humiliation, and Religious Violence / Ellen Posman --
27. Reconceptualizing Totalitarianism and Fascism / Robert Imre. Part V. Case Studies: Religion and Violence, Past and Present. 28. Enduring the Sacred Scars of Slavery / Yolanda Pierce --
29. South Asia: From Colonial Categories to a Crisis of Faith? / Yasmin Khan --
30. Gender, Religion and Violence During the Holocaust / Judith Baumel-Schwartz --
31. Women in the Sastric Tradition: Colonialism, Law, and Violence / Nandini Bhattacharyya-Panda --
32. Biblical Metaphors, Violent Intervention, and American Identity in the Spanish-American War / Matthew McCullough --
33. Militant Islam, Islamic Law, and National Disintegration in Sudan / Jok Madut Jok --
34. The Battle for Australia: Salvation and Conquest / Marion Maddox --
35. Religious-based Violence against Women, and Feminist Responses: Iran, Afghanistan, and Algeria / Valentine M. Moghadam --
36. Anti-Jewish Violence in Late Imperial Russia / Robert Weinberg --
37. Religion, Pluralism, and Conflict in the Pacific Islands / Yannick Fer --
38. Ritual Violence and Violent Ritual in Chinese Popular Religion / Avron Boretz --
39. The Politics of Protestant Violence: Abolitionists and Anti-Abortionists / Joel Olson --
40. Religion and violence in Africa / Ben Jones --
41. Rethinking Religion and Politics in the Middle East / Jeroen Gunning --
42. The Rhetoric of Puritan Violence / Andrew R. Murphy. Part VI. Future prospects: Beyond violence? 43. Liberation from Violence / Thia Cooper --
44. Why Nonviolence? The American Tradition / Ira Chernus --
45. Religious Peacebuilding / Maria Pilar Aquino.