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An immeasurable amount of work has been published on the topic of Faith and Violence. Please see a reading list we have collected to point out a few we think are important.
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Abou El Fadl, Khaled. “Islam and Violence: Our Forgotten Legacy.” In Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives, 2nd edition, edited by John J. Donohue and John L. Esposito, 460-4. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Berman, Paul. “The Philosopher of Islamic Terror.” New York Times Magazine (23 Mar 2003): 24ff.
Gopin, Marc. “Why Modern Culture Fails to Understand Religiously Motivated Violence.” Ch. 3 in Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemaking, 35-64. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Harvey, Peter. “War and Peace.” Ch. 6 in An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values, and Issues, 239-85. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Hitchens, Christopher. “Religion Kills.” Ch. 2 in God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, 15-36. New York: Warner Books, 2007.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. “Buddhist Revolts in Asia: Sri Lanka.” Excerpt from ch. 3 in Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to Al Qaeda, 125-35. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. “Terror and God” and “Cosmic War.” Chs. 1 & 8 in Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, 3rd ed., 3-15 & 148-66. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Kuzmić, Peter. “On the Way to Peace in the Balkans.” Christian Century 113, no. 6 (1996): 199-202.
Tambiah, Stanley J. “Buddhism, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka.” In Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance, vol. 3 of The Fundamentalism project, edited by Martin E. Marty and F. Scott Appleby, 589-617. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Taylor, Charles. “Notes on the Sources of Violence: Perennial and Modern.” In Beyond Violence: Religious Sources of Social Transformation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, edited by James Heft, 15-40. New York: Fordham University Press, 2004.
Volf, Miroslav. “Christianity and Violence.” Reflections 91, no. 1 (2004): 16-22.
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