Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Religion and Violence: Past, Present and Future
Chapter 2 The Ancient and Medieval World
Chapter 2 Dismemberment, Creation, and Ritual: Images of Divine Violence in the Ancient Near East
Chapter 3 Making Memory: Ritual, Rhetoric, and Violence in the Roman Triumph
Chapter 4 Taming the Beast: Rabbinic Pacification of Second Century Jewish Nationalism
Chapter 5 Violent Yearnings for the Kingdom of God: Münster's Militant Anabaptism
Chapter 6 Imperial Christianity and Sacred War in Byzantium
Chapter 7 Founding an Empire of Sacrifice: Innocent Domination and the Quaker Martyrs of Boston, 1659-1661
Chapter 7 The Modern World
Chapter 8 Holy Culture Wars: Patterns of Ethno-Religious Violence in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century China
Chapter 9 Femicide as Terrorism: The Case of Uzbekistan's Unveiling
Chapter 10 Monks, Guns and Peace: Theravada Buddhism and Political Violence
Chapter 11 Avoiding Mass Violence at Rajneeshpuram
Chapter 12 Obliterating an Idol of the Modern Age: The New Iconoclasm from the Twin Buddhas to the Twin Towers
Chapter 13 Is War Normal for American Evangelical Religion?
Chapter 14 On Political Theology, Imperial Ambitions, and Messianic Pretensions: Some Ancient and Modern Continuities