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Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction: Why Is Religion Violent and Violence Religious? | p. 1 |
Religious Justifications for Violence | |
Introduction to Part I | p. 7 |
Kautilya | p. 13 |
"Forms of Treacherous Fights," the Arthashastra | p. 13 |
Sun Tzu | p. 17 |
"Laying Plans," The Art of War | p. 17 |
The Bhagavad Gita | p. 20 |
The Bhagavad Gita in the Mahabharata | p. 20 |
Soho Takuan | p. 25 |
"Annals of the Sword Taia," The Unfettered Mind | p. 25 |
The Hebrew Bible | p. 29 |
Deuteronomy 20 | p. 31 |
Exodus 23 | p. 32 |
The Qur'an | p. 35 |
Surah 2 ("The Cow") | p. 36 |
Thomas Aquinas | p. 41 |
"Whether It Is Always Sinful to Wage War?" | |
Summa Theologica | p. 41 |
Reinhold Niebuhr | p. 45 |
"Why the Christian Church Is Not Pacifist" | p. 45 |
Michael Bray | p. 55 |
"A Time for Revolution?" A Time to Kill | p. 56 |
Abd al-Salam Faraj | p. 62 |
The Neglected Duty | p. 63 |
Meir Kahane | p. 69 |
"War and Peace," The Jewish Idea | p. 69 |
Shoko Asahara | p. 75 |
Declaring Myself the Christ | p. 76 |
Disaster Comes to the Land of the Rising Sun | p. 77 |
9/11 Conspirator | p. 82 |
"Last Instructions of 9/11" | p. 83 |
Understanding the Religious Role in Violence | |
Introduction to Part II | p. 93 |
Emile Durkheim | p. 100 |
Elementary Forms of the Religious Life | p. 101 |
Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss | p. 108 |
"Conclusion," Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function | p. 109 |
Sigmund Freud | p. 115 |
Totem and Taboo | p. 116 |
Rene Girard | p. 127 |
"Sacrifice," Violence and the Sacred | p. 128 |
Walter Burkert | p. 141 |
Homo Necans | p. 141 |
Maurice Bloch | p. 152 |
Prey into Hunter | p. 152 |
Georges Bataille | p. 167 |
Theory of Religion | p. 167 |
Karl Marx | p. 174 |
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right | p. 174 |
Nancy Jay | p. 178 |
"Sacrifice and Descent," Throughout Your Generations Forever | p. 178 |
Elaine Scarry | p. 190 |
The Body in Pain | p. 191 |
Jean Baudrillard | p. 201 |
The Spirit of Terrorism | p. 201 |
Ashis Nandy | p. 210 |
"The Discreet Charm of Indian Terrorism," The Savage Freud and Other Essays | p. 210 |
Closing Comments: The Connection between War and Sacrifice | p. 217 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 223 |
Permissions | p. 229 |
About the Editors | p. 231 |
Index | p. 233 |
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