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This interdisciplinary and multicultural series brings to light the ever-increasing problem of religion and violence. The series highlights how religions have a significant part to play in the creation of cultures that allow and even encourage the creation of violent conflict, domestic abuse and policies and state control that perpetuate violence to citizens.

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5 results in Religion & Violence

Edith Stein and Regina Jonas
  • Religious Visionaries in the Time of the Death Camps
  • Emily Leah Silverman
  • Published by:
    Acumen Publishing
    Published online:
    05 March 2014
    Print publication:
    30 November 2013
  • This ground-breaking book examines the lives of two extraordinary, religious women. Both Edith Stein and Regina Jonas were German Jewish women who demonstrated 'deviant' religious desires as they pursued their spiritual paths to serve their communities during the Holocaust. Both were religious visionaries viewed as iconoclasts in their own times. Stein, the first woman to receive a doctorate in philosophy from Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, claimed her Jewish identity while she was still a cloistered Carmelite nun. Jonas, the first woman rabbi in Jewish history, served as a rabbi in Berlin and Theresienstadt concentration camp. A study of a contemplative and a rabbi, the book ranges across many spiritual and theological questions, not least it offers a remarkable exploration of the theology of spiritual resistance. For Stein, this meant redemption and the transmutation of suffering on the cross; for Jonas, acts of compassion bring the face of God into our presence.

Faith-Based War
  • From 9/11 to Catastrophic Success in Iraq
  • T. Walter Herbert
  • Published by:
    Acumen Publishing
    Published online:
    05 May 2014
    Print publication:
    31 December 2009
  • The American invasion of Iraq was largely governed by faith-based policy. The 'shock and Awe' strategy, alongside a grossly mismanaged occupation, led to the loss of American lives. Faith-Based War presents an analysis of the imperialist Christian militarism behind the Bush Administration. America's self-perception as God's Chosen is examined and its catastrophic results detailed. The book offers an ethical, political and theological perspective on the perversion of Christian teaching behind the war in Iraq and the moral culpability of the American empire.

In Search of Solutions
  • The Problem of Religion and Conflict
  • Clinton Bennett
  • Published by:
    Acumen Publishing
    Published online:
    05 June 2014
    Print publication:
    30 June 2009
  • Religion has played a role in conflict throughout history, with religious scriptures often being used to justify violence. In Search of Solutions evaluates the role of religion in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Israel-Palestine. The book argues that religion has a tendency towards conflict and that peace is best guaranteed when human individuals commune directly with the divine without the mediation of organized religions. Different approaches to the reading of scriptures are introduced, drawing on post-modern theory. In Search of Solutions will be invaluable for the student seeking a clear overview of both the theory and the practice of religion in conflict resolution.

Shalom/Salaam/Peace
  • A Liberation Theology of Hope
  • Constance A. Hammond
  • Published by:
    Acumen Publishing
    Published online:
    05 June 2014
    Print publication:
    31 December 2008
  • Conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians has been ongoing since the creation of the state of Israel, a conflict revolving around land-ownership, water politics, human rights, and religious rights. Shalom/Salaam/Peace examines the realities of life in contemporary Israel/Palestine, with its politics, wars, security wall, settlements and ongoing struggles. Having established the historical, scriptural and theological context behind the present situation, the book presents key figures who have promoted peace and justice and explores liberation theology as a way of bringing peace in Israel/Palestine. Combining the history of liberation theology with its lived reality in Israel/Palestine today, Shalom/Salaam/Peace is an illuminating resource for students and scholars of politics and religion.

America Amerikkka
  • Elect Nation and Imperial Violence
  • Rosemary Radford Ruether
  • Published by:
    Acumen Publishing
    Published online:
    05 June 2014
    Print publication:
    30 September 2007
  • America views itself as a nation inhabiting a 'promised land' and enjoying a favoured relation with God. This view of unique election has been coupled with racial exclusivism and the marginalization of non-white citizens. America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns behind America's sense of itself. In its examination of America's 'chosenness', the book ranges across the doctrine of the 'rights of man' in the 18th and 19th centuries, the role of America in the twentieth century as 'global policeman', and the enforcement of neo-colonial relations over the 'third world'. The volume argues for a vision of global relations between peoples based on justice and mutuality, rather than hegemonic dominance.