Confronting Genocide Judaism, Christianity, Islam
by Jacobs, Steven Leonard; Bartrop, Paul R.; Dietrich, Donald J.; Farooq, Mohammad Omar; Garber, Zev; Glick, Leonard B.; Haynes, Stephen R.; Knight, Henry F.; Kuper, Leo; Mojzes, Paul; Moore, James Frazier; Nunpa, Chris Mato; Patterson, David; Pawlikowski, JFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-07-16
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary
Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam is the first collection of essays by recognized scholars primarily in the field of religious studies to address this timely topic. In addition to theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Sudan from their own unique vantage point. In so doing, they supply a much-needed additional contribution to the ongoing conversations proffered by historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and legal scholars regarding prevention, intervention, and punishment. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Steven Leonard Jacobs is associate professor of religious studies and holds the Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Genocide in the Name of God: Thoughts on Religion and Genocide | p. ix |
| Textual Warrants for Genocide | |
| Theological Warrants for Genocide: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity | p. 3 |
| The Last Uncomfortable Religious Question? Monotheistic Exclusivism and Textual Superiority in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as Sources of Hate and Genocide | p. 35 |
| A Sweet-Smelling Sacrifice: Genocide, the Bible, and the Indigenous Peoples of the United States, Selected Examples | p. 47 |
| The Accountability of Religion in Genocide | p. 65 |
| More Than the Jews...His Blood Be Upon All the Children: Biblical Violence, Genocide, and Responsible Reading | p. 77 |
| Religion and Mass Violence: Empirical Data and Case Studies | |
| Religion and Genocide | p. 95 |
| Jihad and Genocide: The Case of the Armenians | p. 119 |
| Islam and Genocide: The Case of Bangladesh in 1971 | p. 139 |
| The Genocidal Twentieth Century in the Balkans | p. 151 |
| "Death Was Everywhere, Even in Front of the Church": Christian Faith and the Rwandan Genocide | p. 183 |
| Alternative Readings of Troubling Texts: Religion as a Force against Violence | |
| Getting Rid of the G-d of Abraham: A Prerequisite for Genocide | p. 197 |
| The Ten Commandments, the Holocaust, and Reflections on Genocide | p. 209 |
| Coming to Terms with Amalek: Testing the Limits of Hospitality | p. 223 |
| Theologies and Practices of Reconciliation | |
| Post-Shoah Restitution of a Different Kind | p. 241 |
| The Holocaust, Genocide, and the Catholic Church | p. 255 |
| Catholic Views on Holocaust and Genocide: A Critical Appraisal | p. 267 |
| Terror Out of Zion: Making Sense of Scriptural Teaching | p. 279 |
| Rape, Religion, and Genocide: An Unholy Silence | p. 291 |
| Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide | p. 307 |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | p. 313 |
| The United Nations Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity (1968) | p. 321 |
| Index | p. 325 |
| Contributors | p. 345 |
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