Dying for Faith
Al-Rasheed, Madawi (Ed.)
Dying for Faith Religiously Motivated Violence in the Contemporary World - London I. B. Tauris 2009 - 222p.
from India to Iraq, from London to Lahore, the relationship between religion and violence is one of the most bitterly contested and casually misrepresented issues of our times. This ground-breaking volume brings together expert perspectives from a variety of fields to probe it. It seeks to shift analytical focus on to the contexts in which violence is expressed, enacted and reported. Ranging from Islam to Buddhism to new religious movements in the West, dying for faith offers a comprehensive and highly original account of a complex phenomenon that has so far attracted sensational media coverage but scant academic attention..
9781845116873
Communalism
303.62 DYI
Dying for Faith Religiously Motivated Violence in the Contemporary World - London I. B. Tauris 2009 - 222p.
from India to Iraq, from London to Lahore, the relationship between religion and violence is one of the most bitterly contested and casually misrepresented issues of our times. This ground-breaking volume brings together expert perspectives from a variety of fields to probe it. It seeks to shift analytical focus on to the contexts in which violence is expressed, enacted and reported. Ranging from Islam to Buddhism to new religious movements in the West, dying for faith offers a comprehensive and highly original account of a complex phenomenon that has so far attracted sensational media coverage but scant academic attention..
9781845116873
Communalism
303.62 DYI