Religion and Violence

Religion and Violence

Course literature

• Agamben, Giorgio, Homo sacer: sovereign power and bare life, Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1998Compulsory*
• Appadurai, Arjun, Fear of small numbers: an essay on the geography of anger, Durham, Duke University Press, 2006Compulsory*
• Cavanaugh, William T., The myth of religious violence: secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009Compulsory*
• Devji, Faisal, The terrorist in search of humanity: militant Islam and global politics, New York, Columbia University Press, c2008Compulsory*
• Dreher, Tanja; Ho, Christina, Beyond the hijab debates: new conversations on gender, race and religion, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2009Compulsory*
• Hinnells, John R.; King, Richard, Religion and violence in South Asia: theory and practice, London, Routledge, 2007Compulsory*
• Juergensmeyer, Mark; Kitts, Margo, Princeton readings in religion and violence, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, c2011Compulsory*

Articles

• Benjamin, Walter, Critique of violence, Part of: Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, cop. 1978, p. 291–316Compulsory*
• Gardell, Mattias, Crusader Dreams: Oslo 22/7, Islamophobia, and the Quest for a Monocultural Europe, Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence, 2014Compulsory*
• Gardell, Mattias, Torture, Terror and Truth: On the meaning of Guantánamo and the future of Global order, Temenos, 44. no. 1., 2008Compulsory*
• Gardell, Mattias, So Costly a Sacrifice Upon the Altar of Freedom: Human Bombs, Suicide Attacks, and Patriotic Heroes, Journal of Religion and Violence, 2014Compulsory*
• Wieland, Christina, Masculinities and the fascist state of mind, London: Routledge, 2015Compulsory*
• Žižek, Slavoj, Violence: six sideways reflections, 1st Picador ed., New York, Picador, 2008Compulsory*
• Compendium of articles, Department of TheologyCompulsory*

* Compulsory