TY - BOOK AU - Cowdell, Scott AU - Fleming,Chris AU - Hodge,Joel TI - Does Religion Cause Violence? : Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Religion in the Modern World SN - 9781501354632 U1 - C84 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury KW - Violence KW - Islam KW - Violence-Religious Aspects KW - Terrorism-Religious Aspects N1 - 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 ER -