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The global impact of religious violence / edited by André Gagné, Spyridon Loumakis, and Calogero A. Miceli.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock Publishers, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781498283069
  • 1498283063
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Global impact of religious violence.DDC classification:
  • 201.76332 23
LOC classification:
  • BL65.V55 G46 2016
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Tyranny of political correctness and religious violence / André Gagné -- Apocalypses and the superhero mythology / Jennifer Tacci -- The common good gone bad / Costa Babalis -- Genocide and religion in Rwanda in the 1990s / Spyridon Loumakis -- Discourse of sacrafice / Marion Achoulias -- Is there such a thing as a radicalized brain? / Marc-André Argentino and Dalia Sabra -- Religion and violence: rethinking the role of the biblical scholar in the contemprary world / Calogero A. Miceli -- Secularized theology and the propensity for violence in the modern state / Derek Bateman -- The global impact of religious violence / Hector Avalos.
Summary: Acts of terror are everywhere! Not one day goes by without hearing about the latest suicide bomb in Baghdad, knife stabbing in Germany, or shooting spree in France or in the United States. A Christian extremist preacher claims that homosexuals deserve to die because he considers their lifestyle to be sinful; groups like ISIS perpetrate genocide against religious minorities and call for global jihad against infidels; Buddhist monks in Myanmar persecute the Rohingya for fear that the Muslim minority destroy their country and religion. All these actions seem to be somehow religiously motivated, w.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1470761

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Tyranny of political correctness and religious violence / André Gagné -- Apocalypses and the superhero mythology / Jennifer Tacci -- The common good gone bad / Costa Babalis -- Genocide and religion in Rwanda in the 1990s / Spyridon Loumakis -- Discourse of sacrafice / Marion Achoulias -- Is there such a thing as a radicalized brain? / Marc-André Argentino and Dalia Sabra -- Religion and violence: rethinking the role of the biblical scholar in the contemprary world / Calogero A. Miceli -- Secularized theology and the propensity for violence in the modern state / Derek Bateman -- The global impact of religious violence / Hector Avalos.

Acts of terror are everywhere! Not one day goes by without hearing about the latest suicide bomb in Baghdad, knife stabbing in Germany, or shooting spree in France or in the United States. A Christian extremist preacher claims that homosexuals deserve to die because he considers their lifestyle to be sinful; groups like ISIS perpetrate genocide against religious minorities and call for global jihad against infidels; Buddhist monks in Myanmar persecute the Rohingya for fear that the Muslim minority destroy their country and religion. All these actions seem to be somehow religiously motivated, w.