The Justification of Religious Violence : Justification of Religious Violence.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Justification, Religion, and Violence -- September 11 (1857) -- Religion and Violence -- Violence -- Justification -- Nothing Bad -- Between "Anything and Everything" and "Nothing Bad" -- Nature and Supernature -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Religion -- Generalizing about Religion -- Supernatural Beings -- Ritual -- The Evolution of Religion -- Memes and Religious Memeplexes -- Religion as an Evolutionary By-product -- Religion as an Evolutionary Adaptation -- Social Solidarity and Religion -- Defining Religion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Morality -- Introduction -- Evolved Morality -- Morality, Evolution, and Culture -- Consequentialism, Deontology, and the Neuroscience of Moral Cognition -- Reasoning and Intuiting -- Morality and Religion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Justifying Violence, War, and Cosmic War -- Justifying Violence -- Justice, War, and Just War Theory -- Pacifism -- Religious War and Cosmic War -- Cosmic War -- Cosmic War and the Supreme Emergency Exception -- Cosmic War and the Superior Orders Plea -- Cosmic War and Non-Combatant Immunity -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The Afterlife -- Afterlife Beliefs -- Christianity, Violence, and Salvation -- Buddhism, Violence, and Reincarnation -- Suicide, Suicide Cults, and the Afterlife -- Notes -- Chapter 6 The Sacred -- The Sacred and the Holy -- Durkheim -- Sacred Values -- Sacralization -- Justification and the Sacred -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Recent Justifications of Religious Violence -- Introduction -- The Gatekeepers and Deific Decree -- Aum Shinrikyo -- Heaven's Gate -- The Killing of George Tiller -- Meir Kahane and the Kach Party -- Al-Qaeda -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Tolerance -- Liberal Democracy and Religious Tolerance -- What Tolerance Is -- Justifying Religious Tolerance -- Religion, Toleration, and Causation.

Violent Religious Groups, Tolerance, and the Liberal State -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Reducing Religious Violence -- Religion, Violence, Justification, and Motivation -- Undermining Religious Justifications for Violence -- Undermining Religion -- Undermining Confidence in Religious Beliefs -- Trying to Keep Religion out of the Public Sphere -- Offering Incentives -- Cosmic War, the Afterlife, and the Opportunity to Make Converts -- Cosmic Warriors and the Opportunity to Make Converts -- Afterlife Beliefs and the Opportunity to Make Converts -- Avoiding Conflicts over Sacred Values -- Reframing Sacred Values -- Prioritizing Sacred Values -- Rituals, Threats, and the Sacred -- Tolerating Violent Religious Groups -- Concluding Remark -- Notes -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

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