Religion & Violence Books

New and Published Books

1. Religions in Movement

   The Local and the Global in Contemporary Faith Traditions

   Edited by Robert Hefner, John Hutchinson, Sara Mels, Christiane Timmerman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   There has long been a debate about implications of globalization for the survival of the world of sovereign nation-states, and the role of nationalism as both an agent of and a response to globalization. In contrast, until recently there has been much less debate about the fate of religion. ‘...

   Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence

   The Role of Religion and Media

   By Jolyon Mitchell

   Series: Media, Religion and Culture

   This book explores how media and religion combine to play a role in promoting peace and inciting violence. It analyses a wide range of media - from posters, cartoons and stained glass to websites, radio and film - and draws on diverse examples from around the world, including Iran, Rwanda and South...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Rise of Modern Jewish Politics

   Extraordinary Movement

   By C.S. Monaco

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   The path toward modern Jewish politics, a process that required a dramatic reconstruction of Jewish life, may have emerged during a far earlier time frame and in a different geographic and cultural context than has previously been thought. Drawing upon current sociological understanding of social...

   Published November 26th 2012 by Routledge
4. Making Sense of the Secular

   Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia

   Edited by Ranjan Ghosh

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today – its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism – and...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
5. Buddhism and Violence

   Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia

   Edited by Vladimir Tikhonov, Torkel Brekke

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a ‘peaceful’ religion. The Western public tends to assume that the doctrinal rejection of violence in Buddhism would make Buddhist pacifists, and often expects Buddhist societies or individual Asian Buddhists to conform to the modern Western...

   Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge