By Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts, Michael Jerryson
ISBN-10: 0190649666
ISBN-13: 9780190649661
ISBN-10: 0190649682
ISBN-13: 9780190649685
Is faith inherently predisposed to violence? Or has faith been taken hostage by way of a politics of aggression? The years because the finish of the chilly conflict have proven a visible shift in styles of spiritual extremism, accentuating the uncomfortable, complicated, and oft-misunderstood courting among faith and violence. The essays during this succinct new quantity study that courting by means of providing a well-rounded examine violence because it appears to be like within the world's so much sought after non secular traditions, exploring Hindu, Buddhist, chinese language, Sikh, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, African, and Pacific Island texts and practices.
The essays in Violence and the World's non secular Traditions discover the ways that particular religions have justified acts of destruction, in background, in scripture, and within the modern global. however the assortment additionally bargains an research of non secular symbols and practices, laying off new mild at the very nature of faith and confronting the query of ways deeply intertwined are violence and faith.
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In the recent civil war with the LTTE, Sri Lankan Buddhist monks preached to soldiers in order to suffuse their minds with mercy and compassion. Buddhist soldiers with “cool heads” are less apt to make mistakes on the battlefield and harm civilians (Kent 2010: 172). A unique set of ethical parameters is for kings and just rule, which in the contemporary context apply to nation-states. According to the commentaries (atthakatha), Theravada’s earliest model of a just ruler was the Mauryan emperor Ashoka.
As in other rebirth stories, the narrative serves as a didactic for the particular context as well as general readership. The story tells of a water snake that falls into a trap and is attacked by a throng of fish. Appealing to a blue-green frog for help, the frog, which is the Buddha-to-be, replies to the entrapped snake, “[i]f you eat fish that get into your demesne, the fish eat you when you get into theirs. ” Following the frog’s explanation, the fish seize and kill the snake (Cowell 1895: 165).
We could name the epic as an argument with gods rather than a resolution about the connection of sovereignty, violence, and sexuality. In showing that the most powerful are also the most vulnerable, especially to the ever-present threat of the loss of self, the Mahabharata enacts this argument through a proliferation of figures, both minor and major. It reminds us that the stirring message about the necessity of war given by Krishna on the battlefield must one day come full circle when war ends, in the grieving prince, Yudhishthira, who seeks not incentives to wage war but consolation—for when all have been destroyed, what is left for the prince to take pleasure in?
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