Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-423) and index.
Contents
Premodern theories of violence -- Modern theories of violence -- Previous theories of religious violence -- Scarce resource theory and violence -- How religion creates scarce resources -- Judaism and the Hebrew Bible -- Academic defenses of violence in the Hebrew Bible -- Christianity and the New Testament -- Academic defenses of Christian violence -- Islam and the Qur'an -- Academic defenses of Islamic violence -- The NazI Holocaust -- Stalinism -- The nation-state and secular humanist violence -- A comparative ethics of violence -- Solutions -- Foreign policy implications.
