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Description

1 online resource (3 v. (various pagings)) : ill.

Series

Gale eBooks.

Note

Description based on print version record.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

v. 1, Adams, Gerry ; Africa, North ; Africa, Sub-Saharan ; African traditional religion ; Agca, Mehmet Ali ; Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades ; Al-Qaeda ; Anti-abortion violence ; Apocalypticism ; Aryan nations ; Asia, Central ; Asia, Southeast ; Assassins (Hashshashin) ; Atheism ; Aum Shinriyko ; Baha'i Faith ; Beam, Louis, Jr. ; Bin Laden, Osama ; Bloody Sunday ; Buddhism ; Butler, Richard Girnt ; Chinese folk religion ; Christian crusades ; Christian identity movement ; Christian right ; Christianity ; Church bombings ; Circumcision (female) ; Circumcision (male) ; Civil disobedience ; Colonization and Christianization ; Conflict theory ; Confucianism ; Conscientious objection ; Coughlin, Father Charles Edward ; Creativity movement and Church of the Creator ; Crucifixion ; Danish cartoon crisis ; Daoism/Taoism ; Death penalty ; Drugs ; Eastern Orthodox Christianity ; Ethnicity ; Europe ; Falun Gong -- v. 2, Gandi, Mohandas K. ; Genocide ; Ghost dance and sun dance ; Girard, Rene, Theories of mimetic violence and scapegoating ; Hajj, the ; Hamas ; Hinduism ; Hizballah ; Honor killing ; Internet ; Islam ; Islamic fundamentalism ; Islamophobia ; Israel ; Jainism ; Jewish Defense League ; Jihad ; Joan of Arc ; Judaism ; Just war theory ; Dhomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah ; King, Martin Luther, Jr. ; Koresh, David ; Ku Klux Klan ; Liberation theology ; Lord's Resistance Army ; Mathews, Robert Jay ; Middle East ; Millennialism ; Muhammad ; Muhammad, Elijah ; Mujahideen ; Muslim Brotherhood ; Nation of Islam ; Nationalism ;.

Neo-Paganism ; New religious movements ; New World Order ; News media ; Northern Ireland ; Order, the ; Paisley, Ian ; Peoples temple ; Philosophical perspectives ; Pogroms ; Pope Urban II ; Posse Comitatus ; Pre-Christian pagans ; Puritanism ; Quakers ; Qutb, Sayyid -- v. 3, Rapture, the ; Rastafari ; Redemptive violence (Walter Wink) ; Roman Catholocism ; Rudolph, Eric Robert ; Russian Orthodox Church ; Rwandan genocide ; Sacrifice (animal) ; Sacrifice (human) ; Sands, Bobby ; Satanism ; Self-immolation ; Seppuku ; September 11 attack ; Shintoism ; Sicarii ; Sikhism ; Skinheads ; South America ; Spiral of Violence ; Stigmata ; Suicide bombing ; Taliban ; Terrorism ; Theocracy ; Transcendental meditation ; Unification Church ; Unitarian universalism ; Victims ; Voodoo ; Weaver, Randy ; Witchcraft ; World Trade Center bombing ; Zionism.

Summary

Provides background information and analysis on issues related to religion and violence. Covers important individuals, historical events, groups and practices, theories, movements and processes, causes and effects connected to religious-driven violence.

Subject

Violence -- Religious aspects -- Encyclopedias.

Religions -- History -- Encyclopedias.

Violence -- History -- Encyclopedias.

Added Author

Ross, Jeffrey Ian, editor.

Gale (Firm)

Other Form:

Original 9780765620484 (DLC) 2010039628

ISBN

9780765626820 (electronic book)

9780765620484 (hardcover : alk. paper)