Beyond Holy Wars

Author : Christoffer H. Grundmann
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630873080

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Beyond “Holy Wars” by Christoffer H. Grundmann Pdf

The 9/11 al-Qaeda attacks on the U.S. in 2001 shocked the world, not only because of their viciousness but also because of the disillusionment that "holy wars" are a phenomenon of the past. "Holy wars," rather, are a reality in today's world too, threatening global peace like never before. In this volume Christoffer Grundmann pleads for the cultivation of religious literacy and interreglious dialogue. First, he attempts to regain an adequate understanding of religion by showing the incompatibility of abstract concepts of religion with religions actually lived. So Grundmann suggests perceiving religion as the lived relationship toward an Ultimate. Given that interreligious dialogue is communication about diverse ways of relating to the Ultimate, the religiously embedded, primarily Jewish philosophy of encounter and dialogical thinking--with its personalistic nature--comes into focus here as uniquely suited for such communication. Even though interreligious encounter implies risk, Christians cannot but engage in it fearlessly, says Grundmann, because they trust that the risen Christ will reveal himself anew as the one he really is, wherever and whenever Christians take part in dialogue with people of other faiths.

Author : Saleem Ahmed
Publisher : Moving Pen Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114301257

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Beyond Veil and Holy War by Saleem Ahmed Pdf

The book addresses searching questions non-Muslims ask about issues of violence and sexism among some Muslims. Saleem contrasts between the Qur?an the Muslims holy book approved by prophet Muhammad, and Hadeeth Muhammad?s purported sayings compiled hundreds of years after his death. Ahmed suggests that Muhammad?s sayings may have been misinterpreted, taken out of context or some even fabricated. The Qur?an is also contrasted with the Jewish and Christian scriptures.

Author : Alfred J. Andrea,Andrew Holt
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624669620

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Sanctified Violence by Alfred J. Andrea,Andrew Holt Pdf

"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, including examples of warfare among Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists, as well as Christians, Jews and Muslims. It is a comprehensive and readable overview that provides a lively introduction to the subject of holy war in its broadest sense—as ‘sanctified violence’ in the service of a god or ideology. It is certain to be a useful companion in the classroom, and a boon to anyone fascinated by the dark attraction of religion and violence." —Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara Contents: Introduction: What Is Holy War? Chapter 1: Holy Wars in Mythic Time, Holy Wars as Metaphor, Holy Wars as RitualChapter 2: Holy Wars of Conquest in the Name of a DeityChapter 3: Holy Wars in Defense of the SacredChapter 4: Holy Wars in Anticipation of the Millennium Epilogue: Holy Wars Today and Tomorrow Also included are a description of the Critical Themes in World History series, Preface, index, and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004686373

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Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West by Anonim Pdf

This is Volume Two of a two-volume collection that brings together contributions from cultural and military history to offer an examination of religious rites employed in connection with warfare as well as their transformative and power- and identity-building potential across political communities of medieval Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Covering the period ca. 900 and 1500, the work takes theoretical, textual and practical approaches to the research on religious warfare, and investigates the connections between, and significance and function of crucial war rituals such as pre-, intra- and postbellum rites, as well as various activities surrounding the military life of individuals, polities, and corporates. Contributors are Robert Antonín, Robert Bubczyk, Dariusz Dąbrowski, Jesse Harrington, Carsten Selch Jensen, Sini Kangas, Radosław Kotecki, Gregory Leighton, Kyle C. Lincoln, Jacek Maciejewski, Yulia Mikhailova, Max Naderer, László Veszprémy, and Dušan Zupka.

Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385721400

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Holy War by Karen Armstrong Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author of A History of God skillfully narrates the history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence. "Holy War brings compassion, objectivity, breadth, and imagination to the most urgent crisis of our time." —The Boston Phoenix In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of Europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend. In reality the Crusades were a series of rabidly savage conflicts in the name of piety. And, as Armstrong demonstrates in this fascinating book, their legacy of religious violence continues today in the Middle East, where the age-old conflict of Christians, Jews, and Muslims persists.

Author : Robert Henry Nelson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0271035811

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The New Holy Wars by Robert Henry Nelson Pdf

"Examines economics and environmentalism as competing public religions that derive from, and continue, a Christian worldview; argues that debates over global warming and other environmental issues are ultimately based on theological differences between their respective adherents"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jonathan Raban
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1447219414

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My Holy War by Jonathan Raban Pdf

What does America's 'war on terror' and new era of religious and patriotic intensity look like to an Englishman living in Seattle?

Author : Tim Dedopulos,Lucien Soulban
Publisher : White Wolf Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1588467023

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Holy War by Tim Dedopulos,Lucien Soulban Pdf

For centuries, supernatural powers have reigned, warring among themselves, culling the human herds and lashing out from the shadows. The creatures of the night have held court since before the dawn of history. Nothing lasts forever. From the throng of humanity, individuals emerge who know the truth. They know monsters exist. Enough is enough! The forces of darkness must pay their due. The time of retribution is at hand. Travel to the Fertile Crescent -- the Middle East and Egypt -- to discover what beasts lurk even under the desert sun.

Author : Gabriele Marranci
Publisher : Berg
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845201586

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Jihad Beyond Islam by Gabriele Marranci Pdf

By observing the current crisis of identity among ordinary Muslims, this book explores why, and in what circumstances Muslims speak of jihad. In the end, jihad is what Muslims say it is. Marranci offers us a nuanced and anthropolitical understanding of Muslims' lives beyond the predictable clichés.

Author : Paul G. Doerksen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608994397

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Beyond Suspicion by Paul G. Doerksen Pdf

The modern era includes a two-fold tradition of radical suspicion--the suspicion that politicians corrupt morality, and that politics is corrupted by theology. However, such a view has been challenged in recent theological thought which seeks to move beyond such suspicion to recover a constructive role for political theology. By pursuing a critical comparison of the political theologies of John Howard Yoder and Oliver O'Donovan, The present work shows how post-Christendom Protestant political theology has attempted to move beyond suspicion without putting forward some hidden attempt to reassert a contemporary version of Christendom. O'Donovan's political theology, written from within the British Anglican tradition, Is a bold project in which he attempts to push back the horizons of commonplace secularist politics and open it up theologically, a move that he believes will offer crucial resources for thinking about justice And The common good. A related response is presented by Yoder, who, As an American Mennonite, represents Anabaptism. From this more marginal ecclesial location, Yoder's thought stands both as a challenge to regnant liberal notions of the relation of church and state, and as an important interlocutor for O'Donovan's political theology. Yoder argues that political theology entails a particular kind of focus on the church, where the very shape of the church in the world is a public witness For The world, and not first of all a withdrawal from the world. The critical comparison brings to view areas of significant convergence and divergence in understandings of the Hebrew Scriptures as well as the New Testament. O'Donovan and Yoder's respective interpretations of Christendom are also fundamentally divergent, As are their views on the legitimacy of the use of force by government, clearly seen in O'Donovan's support of Just War Tradition and Yoder's promotion of Messianic Pacifism.

Author : Alfred J. Andrea,Andrew Holt
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1624669611

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Sanctified Violence by Alfred J. Andrea,Andrew Holt Pdf

The Critical Themes in World History series focuses on phenomena that have had a profound impact on the course of world history. This new entry in the series, Sanctified Violence, offers a starting point for reflection and further study of this particular type of warfare that has vexed humanity for over 5,000 years. Whatever one thinks of holy war and however one defines it and divides it into types, there is no denying that it has played and continues to play a significant role in world history. Contents: Introduction: What Is Holy War? Chapter 1: Holy Wars in Mythic Time, Holy Wars as Metaphor, Holy Wars as Ritual Chapter 2: Holy Wars of Conquest in the Name of a Deity Chapter 3: Holy Wars in Defense of the Sacred Chapter 4: Holy Wars in Anticipation of the Millennium Epilogue: Holy Wars Today and Tomorrow Also included are a description of the Critical Themes in World History series, Preface, index, and suggestions for further reading.

Author : John Bunyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:316124897

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The Holy War by John Bunyan Pdf

Author : Kim Ezra Shienbaum,Jamal Hasan
Publisher : Academica Press,LLC
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781933146195

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Beyond Jihad by Kim Ezra Shienbaum,Jamal Hasan Pdf

This collection of non Western scholarly voices is a long awaited remedy to the lack of critical commentary by Muslim intellectuals on the nature of modern Jihadi terrorism and the political debate within Islam over the direction of resistance to modernization and secularization of traditional societies. The work is divided into three parts: 1) Understanding the Islamist Mind. 2) Understanding Islamism and Politics. 3) Beyond Jihad: Expanding the Circle of Sanity. Major figures such as Dr. Ali Sina, Sayeed M. Said and Syed Kamran Mirza contribute previously unpublished essays; indeed the work has virtually new essays from all contributors. With historical introductions by Dr Kim Sheinbaum and Jamal Hasan. Introduction is by terrorism expert Dr.Steven Emerson, author of American Jihad and the PBS documentary " Jihad in America". " A long needed discussion by superb scholars...recommended for research libraries. Professor P duQuenoy, American University in Cairo.

Author : Marcus Tanner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300092814

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Ireland's Holy Wars by Marcus Tanner Pdf

For much of the twentieth century, Ireland has been synonymous with conflict, the painful struggle for its national soul part of the regular fabric of life. And because the Irish have emigrated to all parts of the world--while always remaining Irish--"the troubles" have become part of a common heritage, well beyond their own borders. In most accounts of Irish history, the focus is on the political rivalry between Unionism and Republicanism. But the roots of the Irish conflict are profoundly and inescapably religious. As Marcus Tanner shows in this vivid, warm, and perceptive book, only by understanding the consequences over five centuries of the failed attempt by the English to make Ireland into a Protestant state can the pervasive tribal hatreds of today be seen in context. Tanner traces the creation of a modern Irish national identity through the popular resistance to imposed Protestantism and the common defense of Catholicism by the Gaelic Irish and the Old English of the Pale, who settled in Ireland after its twelfth-century conquest. The book is based on detailed research into the Irish past and a personal encounter with today's Ireland, from Belfast to Cork. Tanner has walked with the Apprentice Boys of Derry and explored the so-called Bandit Country of South Armagh. He has visited churches and religious organizations across the thirty-two counties of Ireland, spoken with priests, pastors, and their congregations, and crossed and re-crossed the lines that for centuries have isolated the faiths of Ireland and their history.

Author : Nigel Cliff
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062097101

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Holy War by Nigel Cliff Pdf

A sweeping historical epic and a radical new interpretation of Vasco da Gama’s groundbreaking voyages, seen as a turning point in the struggle between Christianity and Islam In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies and, with it, access to the fabled wealth of the East. It was the longest voyage known to history. The little ships were pushed beyond their limits, and their crews were racked by storms and devastated by disease. However, their greatest enemy was neither nature nor even the sheer dread of venturing into unknown worlds that existed on maps populated by coiled, toothy sea monsters. With bloodred Crusader crosses emblazoned on their sails, the explorers arrived in the heart of the Muslim East at a time when the old hostilities between Christianity and Islam had risen to a new level of intensity. In two voyages that spanned six years, Vasco da Gama would fight a running sea battle that would ultimately change the fate of three continents. An epic tale of spies, intrigue, and treachery; of bravado, brinkmanship, and confused and often comical collisions between cultures encountering one another for the first time; Holy War also offers a surprising new interpretation of the broad sweep of history. Identifying Vasco da Gama’s arrival in the East as a turning point in the centuries-old struggle between Islam and Christianity—one that continues to shape our world—Holy War reveals the unexpected truth that both Vasco da Gama and his archrival, Christopher Columbus, set sail with the clear purpose of launching a Crusade whose objective was to reach the Indies; seize control of its markets in spices, silks, and precious gems from Muslim traders; and claim for Portugal or Spain, respectively, all the territories they discovered. Vasco da Gama triumphed in his mission and drew a dividing line between the Muslim and Christian eras of history—what we in the West call the medieval and the modern ages. Now that the world is once again tipping back East, Holy War offers a key to understanding age-old religious and cultural rivalries resurgent today.