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Index
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Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Is Religion Violent and Violence Religious?
Part I Religious Justifications for Violence
Introduction to Part I
1. Kautilya
“Forms of Treacherous Fights,” the Arthashastra
2. Sun Tzu
“Laying Plans,” The Art of War
3. The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita in the Mahabharata
4. Soho Takuan
“Annals of the Sword Taia,” The Unfettered Mind
5. The Hebrew Bible
Deuteronomy
Exodus 23
6. The Qur’an
Surah 2 (“The Cow”)
7. Thomas Aquinas
“Whether It Is Always Sinful to Wage War?” Summa Theologica
8. Reinhold Niebuhr
“Why the Christian Church Is Not Pacifist”
9. Michael Bray
“A Time for Revolution?” A Time to Kill
10. Abd Al-Salam Faraj
The Neglected Duty
11. Meir Kahane
“War and Peace,” The Jewish Idea
12. Shoko Asahara
Declaring Myself the Christ
Disaster Comes to the Land of the Rising Sun
13. 9/11 Conspirator
“Last Instructions of 9/11”
Part II Understanding the Religious Role in Violence
Introduction to Part II
14. Émile Durkheim
Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
15. Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss
“Conclusion,” Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function
16. Sigmund Freud
Totem and Taboo
17. René Girard
“Sacrifice,” Violence and the Sacred
18. Walter Burkert
Homo Necans
19. Maurice Bloch
Prey into Hunter
20. Georges Bataille
Theory of Religion
21. Karl Marx
Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
22. Nancy Jay
“Sacrifice and Descent,” Throughout Your Generations Forever
23. Elaine Scarry
The Body in Pain
24. Jean Baudrillard
The Spirit of Terrorism
25. Ashis Nandy
“The Discreet Charm of Indian Terrorism,” The Savage Freud and Other Essays
Closing Comments: The Connection between War and Sacrifice
Selected Bibliography
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