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Margo Kitts is Professor and Coordinator of Religious Studies and East-West Classical Studies at Hawai'i Pacific University. She is the author and editor of ten books, most recently Sacrifice: Themes, Theories, and Controversies (2022) and Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice and Self-Immolation: Religious Perspectives on Suicide (2018).
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The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War

Margo Kitts

Cambridge University Press

2023-05-11

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This Companion offers a global, comparative history of the interplay between religion and war from ancient times to the present. Moving beyond sensationalist theories that seek to explain why 'religion causes war,' the volume takes a thoughtful look...

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Télécharger le livre : Sacrifice
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Sacrifice

Margo Kitts

After over a century of grand theorizing about the universal dimensions to the practice of ritual sacrifice, scholars now question the analytical utility of the notion writ large. The word 'sacrifice' (Latin sacrificium) itself frequently is broken down into its Latin...

Parution : 2022-07-28
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Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
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Télécharger le livre : Elements of Ritual and Violence
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Elements of Ritual and Violence

Margo Kitts

Ritualized violence is by definition not haphazard or random, but seemingly intentional and often ceremonial. It has a long history in religious practice, as attested in texts and artifacts from the earliest civilizations. It is equally evident in the behaviors of some...

Parution : 2018-07-26
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Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
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Télécharger le livre : Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Immolation
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Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Immolation

Margo Kitts

Suicide in the forms of martyrdom, self-sacrifice, or self-immolation is perennially controversial: Should it rightly be termed suicide? Does religion sanction it? Should it be celebrated or anathematized? At least some idealization of such self-chosen deaths is found...

Parution : 2018-05-01
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Éditeur : Oxford University Press
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Télécharger le livre : Violence and the World's Religious Traditions
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Violence and the World's Religious Traditions

Michael Jerryson , Mark Juergensmeyer , Margo Kitts

Is religion inherently predisposed to violence? Or has religion been taken hostage by a politics of aggression? The years since the end of the Cold War have shown a noticeable shift in patterns of religious extremism, accentuating the uncomfortable, complex, and...

Parution : 2016-11-16
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Éditeur : Oxford University Press
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Télécharger le livre : The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence
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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence

Michael Jerryson , Mark Juergensmeyer , Margo Kitts

Violence has always played a part in the religious imagination, from symbols and myths to legendary battles, from colossal wars to the theater of terrorism. The Oxford Handbook of Religion andViolence surveys intersections between religion and violence throughout...

Parution : 2013-01-24
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Éditeur : Oxford University Press
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