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Introduction | p. 7 |
Understanding Violence | p. 11 |
What Is Violence? | p. 12 |
What Makes Violence Possible-and Likely? | p. 16 |
A Model of Expanding Violence | p. 18 |
Conclusion: Hurting without Feeling Bad-or Feeling Anything at All | p. 43 |
Understanding Religion | p. 45 |
What Is Religion? | p. 46 |
Populating the Religious Domain: Beings, Forces, and "Types" of Religion | p. 52 |
"Local" versus "World" Religions | p. 65 |
The Functions of Religion: Explanation, Control, and Legitimation | p. 69 |
Conclusion: Society, Supernatural Agents, and Violence | p. 76 |
Sacrifice | p. 81 |
What Is Sacrifice? | p. 82 |
The Diversity of Sacrifice | p. 85 |
Theories of Sacrifice: Girard and Burkert | p. 105 |
Toward a Better Understanding of Sacrifice | p. 108 |
Self-Injury | p. 117 |
Religious Self-Mortification: A Cry of Pain to the Spirits | p. 120 |
Asceticism: Religious Athletes | p. 133 |
Pain, but What Gain? | p. 143 |
Martyrdom: Death on Principle | p. 149 |
The Selfish Selflessness of Martyrs and Other Self-Mortifiers | p. 158 |
Persecution | p. 161 |
What Is Persecution? | p. 162 |
Religious Persecution in the Ancient/Non-Christian World | p. 168 |
Early Persecution of Christians | p. 170 |
Early Persecution by Christians | p. 173 |
Persecution in Islam | p. 184 |
The Persecution of Witches | p. 188 |
Persecution of Religion by Antireligion | p. 191 |
Persecution by the American Religious Right | p. 197 |
The Virtues of Persecuting-and Being Persecuted | p. 201 |
Ethnoreligious Conflict | p. 207 |
Ethnicity, Culture, Religion, and Conflict | p. 208 |
Ethnoreligious Conflict in the Modern World | p. 215 |
Why Ethnoreligious Conflict Now? | p. 238 |
War | p. 241 |
The Religion and the War in "Religious War" | p. 242 |
Religious War among the Ancient Hebrews | p. 252 |
"Holy War" in Christianity: The Crusades | p. 256 |
"Holy War" in Christianity: The European Religious Wars | p. 260 |
The Taiping "Rebellion" in China | p. 263 |
Islam and Jihad | p. 267 |
War in Hinduism | p. 275 |
"Fighting Orders": Saintly Soldiers | p. 279 |
The Mythology of War | p. 283 |
Homicide and Abuse | p. 291 |
When Is Religious Crime "Religious" and "Crime"? | p. 292 |
Religious Homicide | p. 297 |
Religious Abuse: Women and Spouses | p. 311 |
Religious Abuse of Children | p. 319 |
But Religion Is Supposed to Make People "Good" and "Moral" | p. 327 |
Religion and Nonviolence | p. 331 |
What Is Nonviolence? | p. 333 |
Religions of Nonviolence | p. 342 |
The Religious Contribution to Nonviolence | p. 360 |
Notes | p. 373 |
Bibliography | p. 407 |
Index | p. 427 |
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