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Weird John Brown : divine violence and the limits of ethics /

Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, dr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Ted A., 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
Colección:Encountering traditions.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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