Sanctified Aggression
Legacies of Biblical and Post-Biblical Vocabularies of Violence
Sanctified Aggression allies itself neither with the easy assumption that religions are by definition violent (and that only the secular/humanist/humane can offer a place of refuge from the ravages of religious authority) nor with the equally facile opposing view that religion expresses the best of human aspirations and that this best is always capable of diffusing or sublating the worst. Rather, it works from the premise that biblical, Jewish and Christian vocabularies continue to resonate, inspire and misfire.Some of the essays here explore how these vocabularies and symbols have influenced, or resonate with, events such as the massacre of…
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Weitere Autoren: Sherwood, Yvonne (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-567-11277-4
- EAN: 9780567112774
- Produktnummer: 16997809
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 14'987 KB
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