TY - BOOK AU - Gagné,André AU - Loumakis,Spyridon AU - Miceli,Calogero A. TI - The global impact of religious violence SN - 9781498283069 AV - BL65.V55 G46 2016 U1 - 201.76332 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Eugene, Oregon PB - Wipf & Stock Publishers KW - Violence KW - Religious aspects KW - Political violence KW - Aspect religieux KW - Violence politique KW - terrorism KW - aat KW - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT KW - Gaia & Earth Energies KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION KW - Christianity KW - General KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1470761 ER -