Violence and peace in sacred texts : interreligious perspectives / Maria Power, Helen Paynter, editors.
Power, Maria (Maria Clemence), editor.; Paynter, Helen, editor.
2023
BL65.V55
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Title
Violence and peace in sacred texts : interreligious perspectives / Maria Power, Helen Paynter, editors.
ISBN
9783031178047 (electronic bk.)
3031178041 (electronic bk.)
9783031178030
3031178033
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17804-7
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
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©2023
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English
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1 online resource (ix, 274 pages)
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10.1007/978-3-031-17804-7 doi
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BL65.V55
Dewey Decimal Classification
201/.76332
Summary
This volume brings together 11 experts from a range of religious backgrounds, to consider how each tradition has interpreted matters of violence and peace in relation to its sacred text. The traditions covered are Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Sikhism. The role of religion in conflict, war, and the creation of peaceful settlements has attracted much academic attention, including considerations of the interpretation of violence in sacred texts. This collection breaks new ground by bringing multiple faiths into conversation with one another with specific regard to the handling of violence and peace in sacred texts. This combination of close attention to text and expansive scope of religious inclusion is the first of its kind. Maria Power, FRHistS, is a Senior Research Fellow in Human Dignity at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. She is the author of Catholic Social Teaching and Theologies of Peace in Northern Ireland (2020) and From Ecumenism to Community Relations: Inter-Church Relationships in Northern Ireland 1980-2005 (2007). She is editor of Building Peace in Northern Ireland (2011). Helen Paynter is a UK Baptist Minister, tutor in Biblical Studies at Bristol Baptist College, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, Bristol Baptist College. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including Telling Terror in Judges 19: Rape and Reparation for the Levites Wife (2020), God of violence yesterday, God of love today? Wrestling honestly with the Old Testament (2019), and Reduced Laughter: Seriocomic Features and their Functions in the Book of Kings (2016).
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Violence and Peace in the Mahabharata and Ramayana
Chapter 3. Spectres of Violence and Landscapes of Peace: imagining the religious other in patterns of Hindu modernity
Chapter 4. Jewish Interpretations of Biblical Violence
Chapter 5. A Hermeneutic of Violence in Jewish Legal Sources: The Case of the Kippah
Chapter 6. Buddhism and the dilemma of whether to use violence in defence of a way of peace
Chapter 7. Apologists and Appropriators: Protestant Christian reckoning with biblical violence
Chapter 8. Roman Catholic Teachings on Violence and Peace: The Credible Re-enactment of the Kingdom
Chapter 9: Interpretations of Quranic Violence in Shii Islam
Chapter 10. Sacralized Violence in Sufism
Chapter 11. The Predicament of the Sant-Sipahi (Saint-Soldier): Sanctioned Violence and Martyrdom in the Sikh Tradition
Chapter 12. Experiences with Violence: Studying Sacred Text in Interreligious Dialogue. .

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