Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts

<p>Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2.&nbsp;Violence&nbsp;and Peace in the&nbsp;Mahābhārata&nbsp;and&nbsp;Rāmāyaṇa.- Chapter 3.&nbsp;Spectres&nbsp;of Violence and Landscapes of Peace:&nbsp;imagining the religious other in patterns of Hindu modernity.- Chapter 4.&nbsp;Jewish Interpretations of Biblical Violence.- Chapter 5.&nbsp;A Hermeneutic of Violence in Jewish Legal Sources:&nbsp;The Case of the Kippah.- Chapter 6.&nbsp;Buddhism and the dilemma of whether to use violence in defence of a way of peace.- Chapter 7.&nbsp;Apologists and Appropriators:&nbsp;Protestant Christian reckoning with biblical violence.- Chapter 8.&nbsp;Roman Catholic Teachings on Violence and Peace:&nbsp;The Credible Re-enactment of the Kingdom.- Chapter 9:&nbsp;Interpretations of Qurʾānic Violence in Shīʿī Islam.- Chapter 10.&nbsp;Sacralized Violence in Sufism.- Chapter 11.&nbsp;The Predicament of the&nbsp;Sant-Sipahi&nbsp;(Saint-Soldier):&nbsp;Sanctioned Violence and Martyrdom in the SikhTradition.- Chapter 12.&nbsp;Experiences with Violence:&nbsp;Studying Sacred Text in Interreligious Dialogue.<br></p><p></p><p> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><br>