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A review essay on a book by William Cavanaugh, The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

The presence of religious violence in the Sikh community in India is studied to clarify the connection between religion & violence. The conventional explanations for Sikh violence -- political, economic, & social factors -- are discussed & ultimately rejected. An analysis of the speeches of militant Sikh Jamail Singh Bhindranwale is performed, demonstrating the theme of ultimate struggle against other ethnic groups & the Indian state. The extent of violent imagery in the Christian & Sikh religious traditions is noted; attention is directed to the domesticization of violent imagery in the Sikh religious tradition. It is asserted that religious movements portray their conflicts as ultimate, cosmic struggles to provide religious justification for their violent activities. Factors that have resulted in various religions' use of violence include the claim that cosmic struggles are actual historical events & remain present in the contemporary world & that such violence has cosmic & divine meanings for individuals who perform violent acts. J. W. Parker

The presence of religious violence in the Sikh community in India is studied to clarify the connection between religion & violence. The conventional explanations for Sikh violence -- political, economic, & social factors -- are discussed & ultimately rejected. An analysis of the speeches of militant Sikh Jamail Singh Bhindranwale is performed, demonstrating the theme of ultimate struggle against other ethnic groups & the Indian state. The extent of violent imagery in the Christian & Sikh religious traditions is noted; attention is directed to the domesticization of violent imagery in the Sikh religious tradition. It is asserted that religious movements portray their conflicts as ultimate, cosmic struggles to provide religious justification for their violent activities. Factors that have resulted in various religions' use of violence include the claim that cosmic struggles are actual historical events & remain present in the contemporary world & that such violence has cosmic & divine meanings for individuals who perform violent acts. J. W. Parker

Confronting Religious Violence begins with the premise that violence committed in God's name is always an act of desecration. A range of contributors come together to consider how a re-reading of the hallowed texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam might mitigate the militancy whereby group identity can lead to deadly conflict.

"Twelve international experts from a variety of theological, philosophical, and scientific fields address the issue of religious violence in today's world"--Jacket

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The Indonesian democratic era has provided hope for the growth of mutual social practices established upon diversity of ethnicity, religions, race, and inter-group relations. Yet, in the last decade, various forms of violence were often carried out on behalf of religion instead. These acts of violence were not only physical but also psychological (cultural), in the forms of discrimination, abuse, expulsion, insult, and threat. The Ahmadiyya and Shia cases, for instance, provide an outlook regarding the prevalence of violence within social practices in the community in response to differences. Why does such violence remain to occur in Indonesia? The work finds that, aside from a 'failed understanding of religious texts', excessive truth claim also triggers acts of religious violence in the current era of Indonesian democracy. It is of utmost importance that people's understanding and interpretation of differences be set straight so that any response to differences can be considered as an embryo of national power that serves as an instrument employed for uniting the people of this nation instead of disuniting them. It is also strongly indicated by the work that religious violence may be avoided by changing the understanding of the meaning of differences.