This book addresses the problem of religiously based conflict and violence via six case studies. It stresses particularly the structural and relational aspects of religion as providing a sense of order and a networked structure that enables people to pursue quite prosaic and earthly concerns. The book examines how such concerns link material and spiritual salvation into a holy alliance. As such, whilst the religions concerned may be different, they address the same problems and provide similar explanations for meaning, success, and failure in life. Each author has conducted their own field-work in the religiously based conflict regions they discuss, and together the collection offers perspectives from a variety of different national backgrounds and disciplines.

Helps readers understand the religious dimensions of conflicts Fills a gap by bringing an understanding of religion and its socio-political role to bear on security issues via a series of case studies Multidisciplinary perspectives, from authors across fields and from a variety of different countries

Autorentext
James Dingley is a political sociologist at Queen's University, Belfast. He is Chairman of the Francis Hutcheson Institute and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Northern Ireland Security Qualifications Group. He has published extensively in international journals, and has also published five previous books specialising in development, religion, and nationalist conflict.

Marcello Mollica is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at the University of Messina. Italy. He has conducted field work in Northern Ireland, Middle East, South-eastern Turkey and South Caucasus.

Inhalt

1. Introduction, by James Dingley and Marcello Mollica.- 2. Classical Social Theory and the Understanding of Contemporary Religious Terrorism, by James Dingley.- 3. Religious independence of Chinese Muslim East Turkestan Uyghur by Chiara Olivieri.- 4. Women's rights between civil and religious laws: the Lebanese law on protection of women and family members from domestic violence and the religious authorities' opposition, by Benedetta Pachetti.- 5. Geopolitical vector of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in the context of national security, by Yevhen Kharkovshchenko and Bortnikova Olena.- 6. The Case of Northern Ireland, by James Dingley.- 7. Terror-driven Ethno-religious Waves: mapping determinants in refugees' choices escaping Iraq and Syria, by Marcello Mollica.- 8. Being Ezidi in the Middle East, by Çakr Ceyhan Suvari.- 9. Conclusion, by James Dingley and Marcello Mollica.