The myth of religious violence secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict

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Full title: The myth of religious violence [electronic resource] / secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict / William T. Cavanaugh.
Main author: Cavanaugh, William T.
Format: eBook           
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Summary: Cavanaugh challenges conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the secular are constructed. He examines how timeless and transcultural categories of 'religion and 'the secular' are used in arguments that religion causes violence.
Language: English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Classmark: 201.76332
Subjects:
Violence > Religious aspects.
Religion and politics > Western countries.
Religion > Philosophy > Political aspects > Western countries.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-275) and index.
ISBN: 9780199736645 (e-book)

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