ABSTRACT
First Published in 2015. Daily newspaper headlines, talk radio and cable television broadcasts, and Internet news web sites continuously highlight the relationship between religion and violence. These media contain stories about such diverse incidents as suicide attacks by Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Pakistan, and elsewhere, and assassinations of doctors who perform abortions by white American Christian true believers in the United States. How does one make sense of the role of religion in violence, and of perpetrators of violence who cite religion as a motivation? This encyclopedia includes a wide range of entries: biographies of key figures, historical events, religious groups, countries and regions where religion and violence have intersected, and practices, rituals, and processes of religious violence.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |93 pages
A
entry |5 pages
Adams, Gerry (1948– )
entry |7 pages
Africa, North
entry |10 pages
Africa, Sub-Saharan
entry |9 pages
African Traditional Religion
entry |5 pages
Ağca, Mehmet Ali (1958– )
entry |7 pages
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
entry |6 pages
Al-Qaeda
entry |7 pages
Anti-Abortion Violence
entry |9 pages
Apocalypticism
entry |6 pages
Aryan Nations
entry |8 pages
Asia, Central
entry |10 pages
Asia, Southeast
entry |5 pages
Assassins (Hashshashin)
entry |6 pages
Atheism
entry |6 pages
Aum Shinrikyo
letter |33 pages
B
entry |6 pages
Bahá'í Faith
entry |5 pages
Beam, Louis, Jr. (1946– )
entry |5 pages
Bin Laden, Osama (1957– )
entry |5 pages
Bloody Sunday
entry |12 pages
Buddhism
entry |5 pages
Butler, Richard Girnt (1918–2004)
letter |102 pages
C
entry |9 pages
Chinese Folk Religion
entry |8 pages
Christian Crusades
entry |7 pages
Christian Identity Movement
entry |8 pages
Christian Right
entry |7 pages
Christianity
entry |3 pages
Church Bombings
entry |6 pages
Circumcision (Female)
entry |7 pages
Circumcision (Male)
entry |9 pages
Civil Disobedience
entry |11 pages
Colonization and Christianization
entry |6 pages
Conflict Theory
entry |9 pages
Confucianism
entry |7 pages
Conscientious Objection
entry |6 pages
Coughlin, Father Charles Edward (1891–1979)
entry |5 pages
Creativity Movement and Church of the Creator
entry |7 pages
Crucifixion
letter |27 pages
D
entry |6 pages
Danish Cartoon Crisis
entry |10 pages
Daoism/Taoism
entry |7 pages
Death Penalty
entry |7 pages
Drugs
letter |30 pages
E
entry |11 pages
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
entry |12 pages
Ethnicity
entry |9 pages
Europe
letter |5 pages
F
entry |5 pages
Falun Gong
letter |25 pages
G
entry |4 pages
Gandhi, Mohandas K. (1869–1948)
entry |12 pages
Genocide
entry |6 pages
Ghost Dance and Sun Dance
entry |6 pages
Girard, René, Theories of Mimetic Violence and Scapegoating
letter |25 pages
H
entry |3 pages
Hajj, The
entry |6 pages
Hamas
entry |5 pages
Hinduism
entry |8 pages
Hizballah
entry |6 pages
Honor Killing
letter |43 pages
I
entry |9 pages
Internet
entry |11 pages
Islam
entry |11 pages
Islamic Fundamentalism
entry |6 pages
Islamophobia
entry |10 pages
Israel
letter |34 pages
J
entry |7 pages
Jainism
entry |5 pages
Jewish Defense League
entry |10 pages
Jihad
entry |3 pages
Joan of Arc (1412–1431)
entry |10 pages
Judaism
entry |4 pages
Just War Theory
letter |20 pages
K
entry |5 pages
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah (1902–1989)
entry |5 pages
King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929–1968)
entry |5 pages
Koresh, David (1959–1993)
entry |8 pages
Ku Klux Klan
letter |13 pages
L
entry |9 pages
Liberation Theology
entry |5 pages
Lord's Resistance Army
letter |37 pages
M
entry |4 pages
Mathews, Robert Jay (1953-1984)
entry |10 pages
Middel East
entry |7 pages
Millennialism
entry |5 pages
Muhammad (570–632)
entry |7 pages
Muhammad, Elijah (1897–1975)
entry |3 pages
Mujahideen
entry |6 pages
Muslim Brotherhood
letter |54 pages
N
entry |6 pages
Nation of Islam
entry |11 pages
Nationalism
entry |8 pages
Neo-Paganism
entry |10 pages
New Religious Movements
entry |5 pages
New World Order
entry |10 pages
News Media
entry |10 pages
Northern Ireland
letter |5 pages
O
entry |5 pages
Order, The
letter |45 pages
P
entry |5 pages
Paisley, Ian (1926– )
entry |7 pages
Peoples Temple
entry |10 pages
Philosophical Perspectives
entry |5 pages
Pogroms
entry |6 pages
Pope Urban II (c. 1042–1099)
entry |6 pages
Posse Comitatus
entry |6 pages
Pre-Christian Pagans
entry |6 pages
Puritanism
letter |7 pages
Q
entry |4 pages
Quakers
entry |4 pages
Qutb, Sayyid (1906–1966)
letter |45 pages
R
entry |5 pages
Rapture, The
entry |6 pages
Rastafari
entry |6 pages
Redemptive Violence (Walter Wink)
entry |16 pages
Roman Catholicism
entry |5 pages
Rudolph, Eric Robert (1966– )
entry |5 pages
Russian Orthodox Church
entry |7 pages
Rwandan Genocide
letter |81 pages
S
entry |7 pages
Sacrifice (Animal)
entry |8 pages
Sacrifice (Human)
entry |6 pages
Sands, Bobby (1954–1981)
entry |8 pages
Satanism
entry |5 pages
Self-Immolation
entry |7 pages
Seppuku
entry |7 pages
September 11 Attack
entry |7 pages
Shintoism
entry |4 pages
Sicarii
entry |5 pages
Sikhism
entry |5 pages
Skinheads
entry |8 pages
South America
entry |6 pages
Spiral of Violence
entry |5 pages
Stigmata
entry |7 pages
Suicide Bombing
letter |38 pages
T
entry |7 pages
Taliban
entry |13 pages
Terrorism
entry |13 pages
Theocracy
entry |6 pages
Transcendental Meditation
letter |12 pages
U
entry |8 pages
Unification Church
entry |5 pages
Unitarian Universalism
letter |19 pages
V
entry |13 pages
Victims
entry |7 pages
Voodoo
letter |20 pages
W
entry |7 pages
Weaver, Randy (1948– )
entry |10 pages
Witchcraft
entry |5 pages
World Trade Center Bombing
letter |5 pages
Z
entry |5 pages
Zionism
