Does Religion Cause Violence? Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Religion in the Modern World

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Does Religion Cause Violence Girard and the Myth of Religious Violence .........7 The Complex relationship between Violence and Religion .......25 Why is God part of Human Violence ? The Idolatrous Nature of Modern Religios Extremism ..........39 Love your Enemies : God`s New world Order ............57 2. Violence and Deterrence in the Modern World The War to End all wars : Mimetic Theory and Mounting to the Extremes in a Time of Disaster ........67 The Sacred is Back - But as Simulacrum ......93 Forms fo the Sacred and the Texture of Hope ..............107 The end of Politics ........117 Rites of Expulsion : Violence against heretics in early modern catholic France ..............129 3. Islamic Terrorism : A Case study of Contemporary Religious Violence Islam and Violence : Debunking the myth ..............147 Violence, Religion and the Sacred : in Dialogue with Asma Afsaruddin`s Islam and Violence : Debunking the Myths...........167 Religion, Radicalization, and Violent Extremism ........173 Religious Extremism , Terrorism and Islam .....191 The Jihadist current and the west : Politics, Theology, and the Clash of Conceptuality ........207