Religion and Violence An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict from Antiquity to the Present

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Editor and Contributors; Introduction; A; Adams, Gerry; Africa, North; Africa, Sub-Saharan; African Traditional Religion; Ağca, Mehmet Ali; Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades; Al-Qaeda; Anti-Abortion Violence; Apocalypticism; Aryan Nations; Asia, Central; Asia, Southeast; Assassins (Hashshashin); Atheism; Aum Shinrikyo; B; Bahá'í Faith; Beam, Louis, Jr; Bin Laden, Osama; Bloody Sunday; Buddhism; Butler, Richard Girnt; C; Chinese Folk Religion; Christian Crusades; Christian Identity Movement; Christian Right. ChristianityChurch 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; D; Danish Cartoon Crisis; Daoism/Taoism; Death Penalty; Drugs; E; Eastern Orthodox Christianity; Ethnicity; Europe; F; Falun Gong; G; Gandhi, Mohandas K.; Genocide; Ghost Dance and Sun Dance; Girard, René, Theories of Mimetic Violence and Scapegoating; H; Hajj, The; Hamas; Hinduism; Hizballah; Honor Killing; I; Internet. IslamIslamic Fundamentalism; Islamophobia; Israel; J; Jainism; Jewish Defense League; Jihad; Joan of Arc; Judaism; Just War Theory; K; Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah; King, Martin Luther, Jr; Koresh, David; Ku Klux Klan; L; Liberation Theology; Lord's Resistance Army; M; Mathews, Robert Jay; Middle East; Millennialism; Muhammad; Muhammad, Elijah; Mujahideen; Muslim Brotherhood; N; Nation of Islam; Nationalism; Neo-Paganism; New Religious Movements; New World Order; News Media; Northern Ireland; O; Order, The; P; Paisley, Ian; Peoples Temple; Philosophical Perspectives; Pogroms; Pope Urban II. Posse ComitatusPre-Christian Pagans; Puritanism; Q; Quakers; Qutb, Sayyid; R; Rapture, The; Rastafari; Redemptive Violence (Walter Wink); Roman Carholicism; Rudolph, Eric Robert; Russian Orthodox Church; Rwandan Genocide; S; 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; T; Taliban; Terrorism; Theocracy; Transcendental Meditation; U; Unification Church; Unitarian Universalism; V; Victims; Voodoo; W; Weaver, Randy; Witchcraft. World Trade Center BombingZ; Zionism; Bibliography; Index