Violence & the World's Religious Traditions

Book Overview

Is religion inherently predisposed to violence? Or has religion been taken hostage by a politics of aggression? The years since the end of the Cold War have shown a noticeable shift in patterns of religious extremism, accentuating the uncomfortable, complex, and oft-misunderstood relationship between religion and violence. The essays in this succinct new volume examine that relationship by offering a well-rounded look at violence as it appears in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190649666
• ISBN13: 9780190649661
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"