Violence, Religion, and the Sacred: In Dialogue with Asma Afsaruddin’s “Islam and Violence: Debunking the Myths”
Professor Afsaruddin’s essay “Islam and Violence: Debunking the Myths” is not in the present context simply an academic exercise: It is also an important ethical and political endeavor, for the question of whether or not Islam is a violent religion is not just a question of historical and exegetical...
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| 格式: | 電子 Article |
| 語言: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2018
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Does religion cause violence?
Year: 2018, Pages: 167-172 |
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B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
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| 總結: | Professor Afsaruddin’s essay “Islam and Violence: Debunking the Myths” is not in the present context simply an academic exercise: It is also an important ethical and political endeavor, for the question of whether or not Islam is a violent religion is not just a question of historical and exegetical interest. At this time, the answers that are provided to this question play a fundamental role in framing important aspects of both the internal and external policies of most, if not all, Western countries, and of many others that may or may not be considered as such, for example, Russia, Japan or China, as well as their attitudes toward important international events, such as the Syrian civil war or the 2016 reaction of the European Union (a term that should be considered an oxymoron) to the ongoing refugee crisis. These answers also play an important role in what common people, that is, all of us average citizens, ask and expect from our governments. It is, in other words, a highly charged ideological issue, in view of what people expect from their government’s response to what they view as the evident answer to this question: that Islam is violent and dangerous. What they expect or at least require from their government is a strange mythical good called: security.... |
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| ISBN: | 9781501333866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Does religion cause violence?
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9781501333866.ch-011 |
