Violence and peace in sacred texts: interreligious perspectives
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Volume -- Untitled -- Chapter 2: Violence and Peace in the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa -- The Two Texts -- Literary Background -- Kingship and Violence -- Summary of Mahābhārata -- Summary of Rāmāyaṇa -- Justifications for Vio...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Cham
palgrave macmillan
[2023]
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Violence
/ Religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Violence Religious aspects B Sacred Books Comparative studies B Peace-Religious aspects B Peace Religious aspects |
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| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Volume -- Untitled -- Chapter 2: Violence and Peace in the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa -- The Two Texts -- Literary Background -- Kingship and Violence -- Summary of Mahābhārata -- Summary of Rāmāyaṇa -- Justifications for Violence -- Suffering Sovereigns -- Janamejaya and the Snakes -- Janamejaya and his Wife -- Violence and the Gods -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3: Spectres of Violence and Landscapes of Peace: Imagining the Religious Other in Patterns of Hindu Modernity -- The Persistence of Premodern Pasts -- Vedic Cosmologies and Mundane Realities -- The Essential Tension -- The Dynamics of Dharmic Domains -- Projections of Solidarity -- The Historical Hierarchies of Hindustan -- Reworking Vedic Visions for the Present -- Gandhi's Struggles with Nonviolence -- Anxieties of Identity -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4: Jewish Interpretations of Biblical Violence -- The Problem of Biblical Violence -- Rabbinic Readings of Violent Texts -- Interpretive Strategy I: Denial -- Interpretive Strategy II: Legalization -- Interpretive Strategy III: Moralization -- Interpretive Strategy IV: Politicization -- Interpretive Strategy V: Historicization -- In Lieu of a Conclusion: Open Questions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5: A Hermeneutic of Violence in Jewish Legal Sources: The Case of the Kippah -- Introduction -- A Field of Pain and Death: Theories of Legal Violence -- A Case Study: The Kippah and Its Punishments -- Talmudic Interpreters: Dead Man Walking -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6: Buddhism and the Dilemma of Whether to Use Violence in Defence of a Way of Peace -- The Historical Buddha on Violence -- Buddhism and Politics -- The Bodhisattva When Involved in Conflicts -- The Dilemma of Defensive Violence. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| ISBN: | 3031178041 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17804-7 |