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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence Karen Armstrong
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Typical caveat: as a To European Catholics, Jewishness, and the Jewish religion, were inextricably connected to blood. Oct 21, 2013 - However, it is important to deemphasize the role of religious leaders in religiously-motivated violence and focus instead on the most basic underlying causes of violence—for example, poverty and inequality–which can be manipulated for personal and group purposes. Feb 5, 2014 - Nye did an astounding job at calmly explaining the overwhelming evidence for why creationism (with special attention to Noah's ark and the flood) simply couldn't explain the origins and diversity of life on earth. But i find it hard to belive that people just want to kill someone else in cold blood. Jan 4, 2014 - Levels of interpersonal violence and warfare for 30 Melanesian societies at the time of contact with Europeans are estimated based on ethnographic and historical records. Although he rarely calls The Origins of Culture; Religion; Ritual; Myth; Prohibitions. Third, the competition to be Big Man was not a level playing field in that sons of previous leaders had advantages, including wealth (which, however, was not always passed down to future generations), secret knowledge, familiarity with neighboring leaders. No need to check religious or political affiliation at a hundred yards when The Other is of a different color. This occurs for various reasons such as the authority of the leader, the amount of leeway in the group and the practice of the group according to its history. Feb 21, 2010 - Yes the abassid empire was possibly the greatest empire to ever exist (the richest man in history, mansa musa, was muslim) BUT islam was very tollerent of other abrahamic religions (jews and christians) and the prophuet well thanks for that, i am not critizing you guys or muslims. I'd really like to see a national overhaul of science education that steps back from specific facts, and instead acts more like a history of science course, where students step through the experiments and discoveries in a limited number of specific fields. Girard believes that the great modern novelists (such as Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust and Dostoevsky) have understood human psychology better than the modern field of Psychology does. Dec 28, 2013 - However, as I argued in my last post, reality is a bit more complicated than this assertion portrays, and I'm going to look at two historical examples of religiously and racially motivated prejudice to illustrate why I believe this is true. But the next When these demands do not bring the desired outcome, the participants will ratchet up the violence, hoping to force action by the feckless state and national governments. It's why inquisitors If we know our history, then we should know the consequences of cultural violence. Jan 6, 2012 - He has written from the perspective of a wide variety of disciplines: Literary Criticism, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, History, Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology. Sep 4, 2012 - We have seen them all before, and we shall see them all again as history rhymes along regardless of the century or the generation of humankind nominally in control of events.