Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World
How is symbolic violence related to the real acts of religious violence around the modern world? The authors of this book, first published in 1992, explore this question with reference to some of the most volatile religious and political conflicts of the day: Hezbollah in Lebanon, Sikhs in India, militant Jewish groups in Israel, and Muslim movements from the Middle East to Indonesia. In addition to providing valuable insights into these important incidents, the authors - social scientists and historians of comparative religion - are responding to the theoretical issues articulated by René Girard in Violence and the Sacred (1977). The present…
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- ISBN: 978-0-429-67200-2
- EAN: 9780429672002
- Produktnummer: 30715159
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 164 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 59'295 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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