VIOLENCE & RELIGION

Aho, James A.  Religious Mythology and the Art of War:  Comparative Religious Symbolisms of Military Violence.  Westport Connecticut:  Greenwood press, 1981.

Bynum, Caroline Walker.  “Violent Imagery in Late Medieval Piety.”  Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 30 (2002), 3-36.

Cults, Religion, and Violence. Edited by David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton.  Cambridge, UK:  Cambridge University Press,  2002.

The Destructive Power of Religion:  Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Edited by J. Harold Ellens.  4 vols.  Greenwood Publication Group Inc. Westport, CT: Praeger  2004.

Erdmann, Carl.  The Origin of the Idea of Crusade.  Edited and translated by Marshall W. Baldwin and Walter Goffart.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1977.

Flori, Jean. Guerre sainte, jihad, croisade:  Violence et religion dans le christianisme et l’islam.  Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2002.

Frassetto, Michael (ed.). Heresy and the Persecuting Society in the Middle Ages. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Girard, René.  Violence and the Sacred.  Translated by Patrick Gregory.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.

Hamerton-Kelly, Robert G. (ed.)   Violent Origins:  Walter Burket, René Girard & Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 1987.

Hubert, Henri, and Marcel Mauss.  Sacrifice:  Its Nature and Function.  Translated by W. D. Halls.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

James, Edwin Oliver.  Sacrifice and Sacrament.  New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962.

Johnson, James Turner.  The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions.  University Park PA:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

Laursen, John Christian, and Cary J. Nederman (eds.).  Beyond the Persecuting Society:  Religious Toleration before the Enlightenment.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

Lincoln, Bruce. Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Lincoln, Bruce (ed.). Religion, Rebellion, Revolution:  An Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Collection of Essays. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.

McClymond, Kathryn. Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Moore, R.I. The Formation of a Persecuting Society:  Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250.  Oxford:  Blackwell, 1987.

Norenzayan, Ara. Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.

Pardo, Osvaldo.  The Origins of Mexican Catholicism:  Nahua Rituals and Christian Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century Mexico.  University of Michigan Press, July 2005.

Putney, Clifford. Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Partner, Peter.  God of Battles:  Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1998.

Stark, Rodney.  For the Glory of God.  How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 2003.

Stark, Rodney.  One True God:  Historical Consequences of Monotheism.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.

von Harnack, Adolf.  ‘Militia Christi’:  The Christian Religion and the Military in the First Three Centuries.  Translated by David McInnes Gracie.  Philadelphia:  Fortress Press, 1981.

Vries, Hent de. Religion and Violence:  Philosophic Perspectives from Kant to Derrida.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.