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Author Gagné, André

Title Religion and Violence in Western Traditions Selected Studies
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (187 p.)
Series Routledge Studies in Religion Ser
Routledge Studies in Religion Ser
Contents Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Note -- 1. ""I will be an enemy to your enemies"": the genocidal ideal in the Hebrew Bible and its legacy -- Introduction -- Enemy formation, identity, and violence in the Hebrew Bible -- Ḥerem as sacralized violence -- Ḥerem as genocide -- Ḥerem as eschatological violence -- The War Scroll (1QM) and the Jewish Wars with Rome -- Opposition to apocalyptic genocide within Judaism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography
2. Turn the cheek but buy a sword: responding to violence in Luke-Acts -- Introduction -- Turning the other cheek -- A contrast in missions -- Staged fulfillment? -- The temptation to fight -- The presence of swords -- It is enough -- Jesus' arrest -- Jesus as Messiah in Luke-Acts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Anabaptists and the apocalypse: the makings of a cosmic war in Münster -- Introduction -- The life and career of Melchior Hoffman, Herald of the apocalypse -- How the Melchiorites became Münsterites -- How the Münsterites became militants
The siege of Münster as a cosmic war -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. ""Ruling [the Church] to its destruction and leading souls to hell in masses"": violence, victimhood, and self-defence in the conciliarist discourse of Jacques Almain -- Introduction -- The organic analogy and ius to self-defence -- A biological body -- A political body -- The mystical body of Christ -- Papal violence against the whole Church -- The Church as a non-corporate collective -- Concern for the Church as the faithful -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography
5. Fearful symmetry: revelation, Hellboy, and pop apocalyptic violence -- Introduction -- Revelation's Christ/Antichrist complex -- Hellboy's Christ/Antichrist complex -- Hellboy and pop culture's Christ/Antichrist complex -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. Inciting genocide in Rwanda and the reception of the Bible: ""When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it -- Introduction -- The judicial records and archives database of the ICTR: accomplishments and critiques -- The Athanase Seromba case (ICTR-2001-66)
Inciting genocide based on the Bible: Deuteronomy 20 and Joshua 7 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7. Jihadism and the family in Europe: the anthropology of the jihadist family -- Introduction -- The breakdown of the patriarchal family model and jihadism -- The anthropological structures of the family conducive for jihadism -- The headless patriarchal family: violence as a substitute for authority -- The neo-patriarchal family in crisis -- The modern family: the crisis of authority and jihadism -- Jihadist siblings -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography
Notes Description based upon print version of record
8. Mediatization of religious violence: information and obscenity
Form Electronic book
Author Guyver, Jennifer
Oegema, Gerbern S
ISBN 9781000409062
1000409066