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Confronting genocide : Judaism, Christianity, Islam

Title

Confronting genocide : Judaism, Christianity, Islam / edited by Steven Leonard Jacobs ; Marc I. Sherman, bibliographic editor.

Format

Book

Published

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2009.

Description

xvii, 350 p. ; 23 cm.

Other contributors

Jacobs, Steven L., 1947-

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Genocide in the name of God : thoughts on religion and genocide / Steven Leonard Jacobs
• Textual warrants for genocide
• Theological warrants for genocide : Judaism, Islam, and Christianity / Leo Kuper
• The last uncomfortable religious question? : monotheistic exclusivism and textual superiority in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as sources of hate and genocide / Steven Leonard Jacobs
• A sweet-smelling sacrifice : genocide, the Bible, and the indigenous peoples of the United States, selected examples / Chris Mato Nunpa
• The accountability of religion in genocide / James Frazer Moore
• More than the Jews
• his blood be upon all the children : biblical violence, genocide, and responsible reading / Gary A. Phillips
• Religion and mass violence : empirical data and case studies
• Religion and genocide / Leonard B. Glick
• Jihad and genocide : the case of the Armenians / Richard L. Rubenstein
• Islam and genocide : the case of Bangladesh in 1971 / Mohammad Omar Farooq
• The genocidal twentieth century in the Balkans / Paul Mojzes
• "Death was everywhere, even in front of the church" : Christian faith and the Rwandan genocide / Stephen R. Haynes
• Alternative readings of troubling texts : religion as a force against violence
• Getting rid of the G-d of Abraham : a prerequisite for genocide / David Patterson
• The Ten commandments, the Holocaust, and reflections on genocide / Paul R. Bartrop
• Coming to terms with Amalek : testing the limits of hospitality / Henry F. Knight
• Theologies and practices of reconciliation
• Post-Shoah restitution of a different kind / John K. Roth
• The Holocaust, genocide, and the Catholic Church / Donald J. Dietrich
• Catholic views on Holocaust and genocide : a critical appraisal / John T. Pawlikowski
• Terror out of zion : making sense of scriptural teaching / Zev Garber
• Rape, religion, and genocide : an unholy silence / Carol Rittner.

Subject headings

Genocide--Religious aspects--History. Rape--Religious aspects--History.

ISBN

9780739135884 (cloth : alk. paper) 0739135880 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780739135891 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0739135899 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780739135907 (electronic) 0739135902 (electronic)