By Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts, Michael Jerryson
ISBN-10: 0190649666
ISBN-13: 9780190649661
ISBN-10: 0190649682
ISBN-13: 9780190649685
Is faith inherently predisposed to violence? Or has faith been taken hostage through a politics of aggression? The years because the finish of the chilly warfare have proven a visible shift in styles of spiritual extremism, accentuating the uncomfortable, advanced, and oft-misunderstood courting among faith and violence. The essays during this succinct new quantity learn that courting by means of delivering a well-rounded examine violence because it seems to be within the world's such a lot famous spiritual traditions, exploring Hindu, Buddhist, chinese language, Sikh, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, African, and Pacific Island texts and practices.
The essays in Violence and the World's non secular Traditions discover the ways that particular religions have justified acts of destruction, in background, in scripture, and within the modern global. however the assortment additionally deals an research of non secular symbols and practices, laying off new mild at the very nature of faith and confronting the query of ways deeply intertwined are violence and faith.
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The second is the exploration of the meaning of togetherness, and the third is that of the obligation of a writer toward his (by extension her) character—thus not simply how one is in the world but also how one imagines others might live in the world. A common thread uniting these ideas is that noncruelty is generated from within the scene of intimacy and is hence perhaps to be distinguished from compassion as an impersonal virtue that is to be extended to all beings. Since I do not have the space to tell the corresponding stories in any detail, I will simply summarize how each dimension of noncruelty is summarized in a particular story.
Early South Asian religious literature charged rulers with protecting their subjects from external forces (which involves warfare) and with upholding the law by inflicting physical punishments. In the era of nation-states and nation building, Buddhists such as Tibetan, Thai, Cambodian, and Burmese consider their nationality intimately connected with Buddhism. Due to this collusion of identities, an attack on the nation becomes an attack on Buddhism (and vice versa). The issue of multiple interrelated identities raises a larger and more problematic question: What is Buddhism?
Buddhist states have used violence externally as well as internally. Early South Asian religious literature charged rulers with protecting their subjects from external forces (which involves warfare) and with upholding the law by inflicting physical punishments. In the era of nation-states and nation building, Buddhists such as Tibetan, Thai, Cambodian, and Burmese consider their nationality intimately connected with Buddhism. Due to this collusion of identities, an attack on the nation becomes an attack on Buddhism (and vice versa).
Violence and the world's religious traditions : an introduction by Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts, Michael Jerryson
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