The (De)Legitimization of Violence in Sacred and Human Contexts

1 Introduction

Thomas Donlin-Smith

Part I - In Sacred Context

2 Violence and The Cross: The Affinity Between Theories of Atonement and Christian Attitudes Towards War and Peace

Jeffrey A. McPherson

3 Facing Down Fear: John Chrysostom's Answer to Violence

Demetrios E. Tonias

4 The Parable of the Wedding Protest: Matthew 22:1-14 and Nonviolent Re-sistance

Marie Hause

5 Refuting the Violent Image of God in the Book of Joshua 6-12

Niveen Sarras

6 The Conflict of War: Unresolved Challenges and Sentiments in Jewish Sources

Saundra Sterling Epstein

7 Remodeling the Paradigm of Religious Inference and Decision Making in Islam: Converting Dogmatism into a Positive and Vibrant Human Activity

Muhammad Akhtar Saeed Siddiqi

8 Violence or its De-Legitimization? Conflicting Views from the Hindu World

Nawaraj Chaulagain

9 Speak Dhamma but Carry a Big Stick: Violence in Early Buddhist Dis-course

John Thompson

Part II - In Human Context

10 War and Religious Discourse in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Andrii Krawchuk

11 The Quest for Radical Islamism and the War on Terror in Indonesia

Etin Anwar

12 The Violent Wahhabism and the Use of Islamic Texts to Justify Armed Violence Against Muslims and Non-Muslims

Abdoul Aziz Gaye

13 Embracing Nonviolence: Pope Francis and Catholic Teaching on War

John Sniegocki

14 Covert Violence: Counting Cultural Trauma at the Intersection of ATR, Islam, and Neoliberalism in Africa

William Glennon

15 The Myth of Islam as Inherently Violent

Fatih Harpci

16 "Heads Will Roll: " Decapitations in Mughal Painting - Persecution or Punishment?

Michael D. Calabria

Christian Van Gorder

Concluding Remarks

Index