Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

Religion and Violence 365 the ritual killing requires no further retribution, and the cycle is brought to an end, while simultan ...

366 John R. Hall “‘From what’ and ‘for what’ one wished to be redeemed and, let us not forget, ‘could be’ redeemed, depended upo ...

Religion and Violence 367 any social order advantages certain social strata and subordinates others, and today, this occurs both ...

368 John R. Hall possible to formulate generic ideal-types, while at the same time recognizing the his- torical circumstances an ...

Religion and Violence 369 decay that might yield death under the control of the alien force of Satan, or it may be that in prepa ...

370 John R. Hall domination never involves coercion. Rather, two agendas ought to be pursued. First, there is a need for more nu ...

Religion and Violence 371 from sectarian and schismatic competition for countercultural predominance that oc- curs in the contex ...

372 John R. Hall However, the apocalyptic orientation is far more broadly significant. Its temporal structure posits a final bat ...

Religion and Violence 373 circumstances with martyrdom and collective suicide. And some movements have far- reaching historical ...

374 John R. Hall the secular Jacobin totalistic urge of the French Revolution to make the world anew, according to a utopian pla ...

Religion and Violence 375 monks in militant politics in Sri Lanka shows that religions sometimes provide concrete organizational ...

376 John R. Hall effect (Joffe 1995). In the wake of 9-11, however, such tactics will delegitimize their perpetrators outside a ...

Religion and Violence 377 internal family conflicts have led to violence, as when the husband of a nineteenth- century Bishop Hi ...

378 John R. Hall sociocultural change, and as Michael Adas (1979: Chapter 5) argues, efforts at repression can badly backfire, t ...

Religion and Violence 379 social injury, other conditions being equal, the likelihood increases that there will be a response of ...

380 John R. Hall a decidedly symbolic cast, the diverse (and often overlapping) kinds of violence seem for the most part occasio ...

Religion and Violence 381 to force a negotiated settlement. In the longer term, he argued, it would be helpful to disentangle re ...

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