Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 261 pages)
ISBN:
9780227905296
Inhalt:
The aim of Religion and Violence is to engage dialectically key symbols of religiously motivated violence through the insights of Bernard Lonergan. Sociologists and psychologists argue the link between religion and violence. Religion is viewed more as part of the problem and not part of the solution to violence. Bernard Lonergan's insights have helped the author arrive at a number of conclusions regarding the link between religion and violence. He argues that there is a difference between distorted religion and genuine religion, between authenticity and inauthenticity of the subject. Distorted religion has the capacity to shape traditions in ways that justify violence, while genuine religion heals persons, helps them make different moral decisions when confronted with situations of conflict, and aims to explore new ways of understanding themselves as shaping history toward progress. Further, Religion and Violence, while arguing from within the Catholic Christian tradition, nevertheless seeks to provide a number of categories that will speak to people from other cultural traditions. Since many of the examples of religious violence cited by commentators come out of the Islamic tradition, the author has evidenced and explored more authentic aspects of the Islamic tradition that would help provide a solution to violence
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261)
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Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Why Draw on the Insights of Bernard Lonergan?; 2. A Selective Literature Review; 3. Lonergan, Religion, and Violence; 4. A Dialectical Engagement with Cosmic War: Cosmos; 5. A Dialectical Engagement with Cosmic War: Warfare; 6. A Constructive Engagement with Warfare; 7. A Dialectical Engagement with Martyrdom; 8. A Dialectical Engagement with Demonization; 9. A Dialectical Engagement with Warrior Empowerment; 10. Conclusions; Bibliography; Back cover
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0227175719
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Arcamone, Dominic Religion and violence Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, 2015 ISBN 1498206948
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781498206945
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Lonergan, Bernard J. F. 1904-1984
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Religion
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Gewalt
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Gewalt
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