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The Justification of Religious Violence Justification of Religious Violence.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2014.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Justification, Religion, and Violence
- September 11 (1857)
- Religion and Violence
- Violence
- Justification
- Nothing Bad
- Between "Anything and Everything" and "Nothing Bad"
- Nature and Supernature
- Notes
- Chapter 2 Religion
- Generalizing about Religion
- Supernatural Beings
- Ritual
- The Evolution of Religion
- Memes and Religious Memeplexes
- Religion as an Evolutionary By-product
- Religion as an Evolutionary Adaptation
- Social Solidarity and Religion
- Defining Religion
- Notes
- Chapter 3 Morality
- Introduction
- Evolved Morality
- Morality, Evolution, and Culture
- Consequentialism, Deontology, and the Neuroscience of Moral Cognition
- Reasoning and Intuiting
- Morality and Religion
- Notes
- Chapter 4 Justifying Violence, War, and Cosmic War
- Justifying Violence
- Justice, War, and Just War Theory
- Pacifism
- Religious War and Cosmic War
- Cosmic War
- Cosmic War and the Supreme Emergency Exception
- Cosmic War and the Superior Orders Plea
- Cosmic War and Non-Combatant Immunity
- Notes
- Chapter 5 The Afterlife
- Afterlife Beliefs
- Christianity, Violence, and Salvation
- Buddhism, Violence, and Reincarnation
- Suicide, Suicide Cults, and the Afterlife
- Notes
- Chapter 6 The Sacred
- The Sacred and the Holy
- Durkheim
- Sacred Values
- Sacralization
- Justification and the Sacred
- Notes
- Chapter 7 Recent Justifications of Religious Violence
- Introduction
- The Gatekeepers and Deific Decree
- Aum Shinrikyo
- Heaven's Gate
- The Killing of George Tiller
- Meir Kahane and the Kach Party
- Al-Qaeda
- Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- Chapter 8 Tolerance
- Liberal Democracy and Religious Tolerance
- What Tolerance Is
- Justifying Religious Tolerance
- Religion, Toleration, and Causation
- Violent Religious Groups, Tolerance, and the Liberal State
- Notes
- Chapter 9 Reducing Religious Violence
- Religion, Violence, Justification, and Motivation
- Undermining Religious Justifications for Violence
- Undermining Religion
- Undermining Confidence in Religious Beliefs
- Trying to Keep Religion out of the Public Sphere
- Offering Incentives
- Cosmic War, the Afterlife, and the Opportunity to Make Converts
- Cosmic Warriors and the Opportunity to Make Converts
- Afterlife Beliefs and the Opportunity to Make Converts
- Avoiding Conflicts over Sacred Values
- Reframing Sacred Values
- Prioritizing Sacred Values
- Rituals, Threats, and the Sacred
- Tolerating Violent Religious Groups
- Concluding Remark
- Notes
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index