Clarke The Justification of Religious Violence

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-52965-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Public Philosophy Series

How are justifications for religious violence developed and dothey differ from secular justifications for violence? Can liberalsocieties tolerate potentially violent religious groups? Can thosewho accept religious justifications for violence be dissuaded fromacting violently? Including six in-depth contemporary case studies,The Justification of Religious Violence is the first book toexamine the logical structure of justifications of religiousviolence.
* The first book specifically devoted to examining the logicalstructure of justifications of religious violence
* Seeks to understand how justifications for religious violenceare developed and how or if they differ from ordinary secularjustifications of violence
* Examines 3 widely employed premises used in religiousjustifications of violence - 'cosmic war', theimportance of the afterlife, and 'sacred values'
* Considers to what extent liberal democratic societies shouldtolerate who hold that their religion justifies violent acts
* Reflects on the possibility of effective policy measures topersuade those who believe that violent action is justified byreligion, to refrain from acting violently
* Informed by recent work in psychology, cognitive science,neuroscience and evolutionary biology
* Part of the Blackwell Public Philosophy Series

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clarke, Steve

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1 Justification, Religion, and Violence
2 Religion
3 Morality
4 Justifying Violence,War, and CosmicWar
5 The Afterlife
6 The Sacred
7 Recent Justifications of Religious Violence
8 Tolerance
9 Reducing Religious Violence
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Clarke is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Australia, and a Senior Research Associate of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He has published over sixty academic papers and is the author of Metaphysics and the Disunity of Scientific Knowledge (1998), and co-editor of three books including Religion, Intolerance and Conflict: a Scientific and Conceptual Investigation (with Russell Powell and Julian Savulescu, 2013).