Belief And Bloodshed Book

Introduction: Religion and Violence: Past, Present, and Future   James K. Wellman, Jr.     1
The Ancient and Medieval World
Dismemberment, Creation, and Ritual: Images of Divine Violence in the Ancient Near East   Scott B. Noegel     13
Making Memory: Ritual, Rhetoric, and Violence in the Roman Triumph   Sarah Culpepper Stroup     29
Taming the Beast: Rabbinic Pacification of Second-Century Jewish Nationalism   Michael S. Berger     47
Violent Yearnings for the Kingdom of God: Munster's Militant Anabaptism   Charles A. McDaniel, Jr.     63
Imperial Christianity and Sacred War in Byzantium   Paul Stephenson     81
The Modern World
Founding an Empire of Sacrifice: Innocent Domination and the Quaker Martyrs of Boston, 1659-1661   Jon Pahl     97
Holy Culture Wars: Patterns of Ethno-Religious Violence in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century China   David G. Atwill     115
Femicide as Terrorism: The Case of Uzbekistan's Unveiling Murders   Marianne Kamp     131
Monks, Guns, and Peace: Theravada Buddhism and Political Violence   Charles F. Keyes     145
Avoiding Mass Violence at Rajneeshpuram   Marion S. Goldman     165
"Obliterating an Idol of the Modern Age": The New Iconoclasm from the Twin Buddhas to the Twin Towers   Joel Black     179
Is War Normal for American Evangelical Religion?   James K. Wellman, Jr.     195
On Political Theology, Imperial Ambitions, and Messianic Pretensions: Some Ancient and Modern Continuities   Bruce Lincoln     211
References     227
Index     263
About the Contributors     269