TY - CHAP
T1 - Religion and Violence
T2 - Coming to Terms with Terms
AU - Carlson, John
PY - 2011/4/20
Y1 - 2011/4/20
KW - "Religion" and "Violence," defining relationships - coming to terms with terms
KW - Category, known as religion - use of the "R-word," more contested than ever
KW - Debates over the definition of religion - going back to early antiquity
KW - Debates, moral and political philosophers - meanings of violence, in 1960s and 1970s
KW - Efforts to interpret the massacre - shooter's motives, and the trauma's aftermath
KW - Post-September 11 world, constructions of religion - easy to form, and dangerous to hold
KW - Religion, turning out to be a rather peculiar term - fraught with paradox
KW - Religious and secular violence - Bruce Lincoln's study of religion, relations to violence
KW - Scholarly works, seeking to probe - intersections of religion and violence
KW - Student Seung-Hui Cho's shooting spree - turning his gun on himself, claiming 32 lives
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U2 - 10.1002/9781444395747.ch1
DO - 10.1002/9781444395747.ch1
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84885551809
SN - 9781405191319
SP - 5
EP - 22
BT - The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
ER -