Thinking About Religion and Violence

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Call Number: DVD 201.763 Bi Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Contains 24 thirty minute lectures.
"Course no. 4105."
Religion and violence: a strange nexus -- Defining religion and violence -- Violence in sacred texts -- Martyrdom, sacrifice, and self-harm -- Scapegoating and demonology -- Understanding witch trials -- The Apocalyptic outlook -- Racial violence and religion -- Religion and violence against women -- Sexuality, morality, and punishment -- Heresies and their suppression -- Religion and Just War theory -- Peace as a religious ideal -- War gods and Holy War -- Religious violence in Israel -- Religious violence in India -- Religion's relationship with slavery -- Native Americans and religious violence -- Violence and "cults" -- Anti-Catholocism in Europe and America -- The persistence of anti-semitism -- Islam, violence, and islamophobia -- Religion and terrorism -- What we can do about religious violence.
Lectures presented by Professor Jason C. Bivens, North Carolina State University.
This course explores the history of religious violence, its multiple manifestations, its scriptural justifications, and how its perpetrators perceive the world. Ony by understanding the roots, causes, and circumstance of religious violence can we grapple with it intellectually and practically. These lectures treat the topic not as something resistant to analysis, but as a recurrent religious impulse that can be decoded, interpreted, and understood through comparison.

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