The Just War and Jihad
The fifteen chapters of this book bring together scholars from a variety of fields to examine and analyze what they perceive to be a relationship between religion and violence. Generating a feeling of déjà vu, they rehash previously developed assumptions, arguments, and biases that tend to ignore u...
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oai:doaj.org-article:85df1c1a0e9140a6b1982f6dbccc8ef32021-12-02T17:49:40ZThe Just War and Jihad10.35632/ajis.v24i4.15142690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/85df1c1a0e9140a6b1982f6dbccc8ef32007-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1514https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 The fifteen chapters of this book bring together scholars from a variety of fields to examine and analyze what they perceive to be a relationship between religion and violence. Generating a feeling of déjà vu, they rehash previously developed assumptions, arguments, and biases that tend to ignore underlying causes related to the “existence of the sacred,” for reasons apparently beyond the domain of secular comprehension. The articles reiterate conventional secular arguments about the dangers of religious convictions on “peace” and tend to vary in quality and consistency, which reflects on the book’s overall merit. Although it is not feasible to go into each chapter’s details, it is important to underscore their basic thrust and common theme: the issue of legitimation and what confers legitimacy on action, be it violent in nature, such as in war or conflict, or simply legal and organizational. Hector Avalos (chapter 6) puts it candidly. In the “relative” framework of “empirico-rationalism,” he argues that religious violence is always “immoral,” positing that “life,” as a manifestation of that which “exists,” is worth more than that which does not exist (p. 113). However, this does not preclude war in the absolute. One arrives at this conclusion after reading J. Harold Ellens’ “The Obscenity of War” (chapter 2) as well as the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion’s (CSER) “Protocol on Religion, Warfare, and Violence” (chapter 15) ... Amr G. E. SabetInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 24, Iss 4 (2007) |
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The fifteen chapters of this book bring together scholars from a variety of
fields to examine and analyze what they perceive to be a relationship
between religion and violence. Generating a feeling of déjà vu, they rehash
previously developed assumptions, arguments, and biases that tend to ignore
underlying causes related to the “existence of the sacred,” for reasons apparently
beyond the domain of secular comprehension. The articles reiterate
conventional secular arguments about the dangers of religious convictions
on “peace” and tend to vary in quality and consistency, which reflects on the
book’s overall merit.
Although it is not feasible to go into each chapter’s details, it is important
to underscore their basic thrust and common theme: the issue of legitimation
and what confers legitimacy on action, be it violent in nature, such as
in war or conflict, or simply legal and organizational. Hector Avalos (chapter
6) puts it candidly. In the “relative” framework of “empirico-rationalism,”
he argues that religious violence is always “immoral,” positing that “life,” as
a manifestation of that which “exists,” is worth more than that which does not
exist (p. 113). However, this does not preclude war in the absolute. One
arrives at this conclusion after reading J. Harold Ellens’ “The Obscenity of
War” (chapter 2) as well as the Committee for the Scientific Examination of
Religion’s (CSER) “Protocol on Religion, Warfare, and Violence” (chapter 15) ...
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