Jeffery D. Long - Nonviolence in the Worlds Religions: A Concise Introduction

1. MARK JUERGENSMEYER

2. JEFFERY D. LONG

3. BRIANNE DONALDSON

4. STEPHEN L. JENKINS

5. CYNTHIA KEPPLEY MAHMOOD AND MARA TERESA MILN BERNCOLA

6. AARON J. HAHN TAPPER AND ILANA SUMKA

7. GERALD W. SCHLABACH

8. MOHAMMED ABU-NIMER AND S. AYSE KADAYIFCI-ORELLANA

9. ANDREW STRATHERN AND PAMELA J. STEWART

The twenty-first century began with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Much has been written and debated on the relationship between faith and violence, with acts of terror at the forefront. However, the twentieth century also gave rise to many successful nonviolent protest movements.

Nonviolence in the Worlds Religions introduces the reader to the complex relationship between religion and nonviolence. Each of the essays delves into the contemporary and historical expressions of the worlds major religious traditions in relation to nonviolence. Contributors explore the literary and theological foundations of a traditions justification of nonviolence; the ways that nonviolence has come to expression in its beliefs, symbols, rituals, and other practices; and the evidence of nonviolence in its historic and present responses to conflict and warfare. The meanings of both religion and nonviolence are explored through engagement with nonviolence in Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, Sikh, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Jain, and Pacific Island religious traditions.

This is the ideal introduction to the relationship between religion and violence for undergraduate students, as well as for those in related fields, such as religious studies, peace and conflict studies, area studies, sociology, political science, and history.

Jeffery D. Long is the Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religious Studies at Elizabethtown College, USA. He is the author of A Vision for Hinduism, Jainism: An Introduction, The Historical Dictionary of Hinduism, Hinduism in America: A Convergence of Worlds, and the forthcoming Indian Philosophy: An Introduction. Long is also the editor of the Lexington Books series Explorations in Indic Traditions: Ethical, Philosophical, and Theological.

Michael G. Long is the author and editor of more than a dozen books on nonviolence, civil rights, politics, and religion, including We the Resistance: Documenting Our History of Nonviolent Protest and Christian Peace and Nonviolence.

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Names: Long, Jeffery D., editor. | Long, Michael G., editor.

Title: Nonviolence in the worlds religions : a concise introduction / edited by Jeffery D. Long and Michael G. Long.

Description: First. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021014485 (print) | LCCN 2021014486 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367439583 (hbk) | ISBN 9780367439576 (pbk) | ISBN 9781003006763 (ebk)

Subjects: LCSH: NonviolenceReligious aspects. | Religions.

Classification: LCC BL65.V55 N665 2022 (print) | LCC BL65.V55 (ebook) | DDC 201/.72dc23

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Mohammed Abu-Nimer is a Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University, USA, where he also directs the Peacebuilding and Development Institute. His books include Dialogue, Conflict Resolution, and Change: Arab-Jewish Encounters in Israel, Peacebuilding and Nonviolence in Islamic Context: Bridging Ideals and Reality, and Peace-Building By, Between and Beyond Muslims and Evangelical Christians. Abu-Nimer is also the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.

Brianne Donaldson serves as the Shri Parshvanath Presidential Chair in Jain Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA. She is the author of Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition and Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation. Her coedited volumes include Feeling Animal Death: Being Hosts to Ghosts and The Future of Meat Without Animals.

Aaron J. Hahn Tapper is the Mae and Benjamin Swig Professor in Jewish Studies at the University of San Francisco, USA. He is the author of Judaisms: A Twenty-First Century Introduction to Jews and Jewish Identities and the co-editor of two volumes, Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates and Muslims and Jews in America: Commonalities, Contentions, and Complexities. His articles include Nonviolence in Religions in The International Encyclopedia of Ethics and Toward a Jewish Theology of Nonviolence in Tikkun Magazine.

Stephen L. Jenkins is a Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Humboldt State University, USA. He researches Buddhist concepts of compassion, their philosophical grounding, and ethical implications. Other publications on Buddhism and violence include Once the Buddha Was a Warrior, in The Nature of Peace and the Morality of Armed Conflict, Making Merit through Warfare According to the rya-Bodhisattva-gocara-upyavis.aya-vikurvan.a-nirdea Stra, in Buddhist Warfare, and On the Auspiciousness of Compassionate Violence in the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies.

Mark Juergensmeyer is a Professor of Global Studies, Professor of Sociology, and Affiliate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, where he is also the founding director of the Global and International Studies Program and the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies. He is the author and editor of over twenty books, including Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence and God in the Tumult of the Global Square.

S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana is an affiliate researcher with the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, USA. She is the author of