47 research outputs found
O antropólogo como "espião": das acusações públicas à construção das perspectivas nativas
Fora da ordem natural: a natureza nos discursos sobre a clonagem e a pesquisa com celulas-tronco em jornais brasileiros
Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship: Compatibility between Cultural and Biological Approaches
Bhuvanekabahu VII and the Portuguese Temporal and spiritual encounters in Sri Lanka, 1521-1551
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Sri Lanka in the Long Early Modern Period: Its Place in a Comparative Theory of Second Millennium Eurasian History
Religion and war: a synthesis
This chapter draws on the papers in this volume to help develop a global comparative
perspective on religion and war. It proceeds by establishing two forms of religiosity:
immanentism, versions of which may be found in every society; and transcendentalism, which
captures what is distinctive about salvific, expansionary religions such as Christianity, Islam,
and Buddhism. This chapter does not suggest that either immanentism or transcendentalism
enhance the likelihood of collective violence in themselves. It does, however, argue that these
types of religiosity are distinctive in how they drive war, allow enemies to be identified, and
rationalize or legitimize collective violence. Some of the paths by which societies may become
more bellicose (prone to war) or martial (heavily shaped by a military ethos) are sketched out
and certain elective affinities between imperial expansion and transcendentalist systems are
proposed. The place of Confucianism in this interpretative schema is discussed towards the
end. Many scales of comparison are considered throughout, especially whether the categories
of ‘transcendentalism’, ‘monotheism’ or ‘Christianity’’/Islam’ afford the most comparative
insight in understanding patterns of violence