Sanctified Aggression: Legacies of Biblical and Post-Biblical Vocabularies of Violence

by Jonneke Bekkenkamp and Yvonne Sherwood

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567080609
• ISBN13: 9780567080608
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"