By Mark Tomass
ISBN-10: 1137525711
ISBN-13: 9781137525710
Explores the historic origins of Syria's spiritual sects and their dominance of the Syrian social scene. It identifies their particular ideals and relates how the activities of the spiritual gurus and political marketers performing on behalf in their sects reveal them to sectarian violence, culminating within the dissolution of the geographical region.
Read Online or Download The Religious Roots of the Syrian Conflict: The Remaking of the Fertile Crescent PDF
Similar politics & state books
Religion in an Expanding Europe
With political controversies raging over concerns equivalent to the donning of headscarves in faculties and the point out of Christianity within the eu structure, spiritual concerns are of growing to be significance in ecu politics. during this quantity, Byrnes and Katzenstein examine the impression that growth to international locations with diversified and more desirable spiritual traditions could have at the ecu as an entire, and particularly on its homogeneity and assumed secular nature.
The 9/11 Prophecy. Startling Evidence the Endtimes Have Begun
In July 2000, God despatched a watchman to Madison sq. backyard in manhattan urban with caution of an approaching shock assault that will be an indication pointing to the top instances. while this very factor occurred fourteen months in a while September 11, it proved to be God's bad catalyst to start the end-times correct ahead of our eyes.
Spirituality and the Ethics of Torture
What precisely is torture? should still we torture suspected terrorists in the event that they have information regarding destiny violent acts? Defining torture conscientiously, the ebook defends the concept every person are important, and rejects ethical defenses of torture. It focuses really on practices like sensory deprivation, which perniciously assault the human psyche.
Religion and the Politics of Development
This quantity brings rising examine on faith and improvement into dialog with politics. Deploying leading edge conceptual frameworks, and drawing on empirical study from throughout modern Asia, this assortment makes an incisive contribution to the research of reduction and improvement procedures.
Extra resources for The Religious Roots of the Syrian Conflict: The Remaking of the Fertile Crescent
Sample text
Social and self-identities are therefore relevant to understanding why and how groups are formed. Personal and ego identities, on the other hand, help us understand what happens within groups after they are formed. They also explain the behavior and actions of individuals within the hierarchy of the group. Individuals not only identify with groups, but also bond with the members of those groups. Unlike identification with a group, bonding is more than a feeling of close emotional association with a group’s individual members.
In such locations, they could perform common rituals and 24 The Religious Roots of the Syrian Conflict vocalize their beliefs in relative safety. Their repeated gathering would familiarize them with each other’s personal identities and open channels for cooperation. In such a manner, a religious grouping spontaneously transforms itself into a network for sharing resources. This process is by no means particular to religious groups; however, Middle Easterners’ prioritization of their religious identity makes it more likely that their cooperation will take place along religious lines.
Compared to the Byzantines, the Arabs 42 The Religious Roots of the Syrian Conflict were more tolerant of the Jews, at least in the Fertile Crescent, and recognized them as a self-governing religious community. As a result, Jewish identity and resource-sharing groups were allowed to thrive. 9 Having a common language, a common legal system, and a common identity, Jewish merchants could count on the hospitality of their coreligionists to facilitate their trade activities over large territories. Jewish merchants not only felt secure within fellow Jews’ homes but also knew that their religious brethren would pay ransom on their behalf if they were to be captured by pirates or outlaws.
The Religious Roots of the Syrian Conflict: The Remaking of the Fertile Crescent by Mark Tomass
by Robert
4.2