The Myth of Religious Violence

The idea that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence is part of the conventional wisdom of Western societies, and it underlies many of our institutions and policies, from limits on the public role of religion to efforts to promote liberal democracy in the Middle East. William T. Cavanaugh challenges this conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the secular are constructed. A growing body of scholarly work explores how the category 'religion' has been constructed in the modern West and in colonial contexts according to specific configurations of political power.

Transforming the widely accepted narrative of religious violence will not be accomplished in the span of reading Cavanaughs book alone. Yet he has contributed a helpfully bold book that should spur a multi-disciplinary and critical reexamination of the narrative of religion and violence and the origins of the liberal, secular state.

Autorentext
William Cavanaugh is the Associate Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas

Inhalt
Introduction
Chapter 1:: The Myth of Religious Violence
Chapter 2:: The Invention of Religion
Chapter 3:: The Creation Myth of the Wars of Religion
Chapter 4:: The Uses of the Myth
Notes

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