TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koch,Bettina
TI  - Patterns Legitimizing Political Violence in Transcultural Perspectives: Islamic and Christian Traditions and Legacies 
T2  - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation ,
SN  - 9781614515661
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Political Science, other
KW  - Theology and Religious Studies
KW  - Religious Studies
KW  - Comparative Studies
KW  - Religion in Europe
KW  - Religion in Latin America
KW  - Konflikforschung
KW  - Lateinamerika
KW  - Naher Osten
KW  - Rechtfertigung
KW  - Religiöse Gewalt
KW  - RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Conflict
KW  - legitimacy
KW  - religion
KW  - violence
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; 1. Introduction: Legitimacy, Religion, and Violence --; 2. Medieval Foundations --; 3. Religion and Violence in Twentieth Century Islam and Christianity --; 4. Insights and Implications: Duties, Rights, and Legitimizing Violence --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This volume explores theoretical discourses in which religion is used to legitimize political violence. It examines the ways in which Christianity and Islam are utilized for political ends, in particular how violence is used (or abused) as an expedient to justify political action. This research focuses on premodern as well as contemporary discourses in the Middle East and Latin America, identifying patterns frequently used to justify the deployment of violence in both hegemonic and anti-hegemonic discourses. In addition, it explores how premodern arguments and authorities are utilized and transformed in order to legitimize contemporary violence as well as the ways in which the use of religion as a means to justify violence alters the nature of conflicts that are not otherwise explicitly religious. It argues that most past and present conflicts, even if the discourses about them are conducted in religious terms, have origins other than religion and/or blend religion with other causes, namely socio-economic and political injustice and inequality. Understanding the use and abuse of religion to justify violence is a prerequisite to discerning the nature of a conflict and might thus contribute to conflict resolution
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513940
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781614513940
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781614513940/original
ER  -