Confronting genocide : Judaism, Christianity, Islam / edited by Steven Leonard Jacobs ; Marc I. Sherman, bibliographic editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Genocide in the name of God : thoughts on religion and genocide / Steven Leonard Jacobs -- Textual warrants for genocide -- Theological warrants for genocide : Judaism, Islam, and Christianity / Leo Kuper -- The last uncomfortable religious question? : monotheistic exclusivism and textual superiority in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as sources of hate and genocide / Steven Leonard Jacobs -- A sweet-smelling sacrifice : genocide, the Bible, and the indigenous peoples of the United States, selected examples / Chris Mato Nunpa -- The accountability of religion in genocide / James Frazer Moore -- More than the Jews -- his blood be upon all the children : biblical violence, genocide, and responsible reading / Gary A. Phillips -- Religion and mass violence : empirical data and case studies -- Religion and genocide / Leonard B. Glick -- Jihad and genocide : the case of the Armenians / Richard L. Rubenstein -- Islam and genocide : the case of Bangladesh in 1971 / Mohammad Omar Farooq -- The genocidal twentieth century in the Balkans / Paul Mojzes -- "Death was everywhere, even in front of the church" : Christian faith and the Rwandan genocide / Stephen R. Haynes -- Alternative readings of troubling texts : religion as a force against violence -- Getting rid of the G-d of Abraham : a prerequisite for genocide / David Patterson -- The Ten commandments, the Holocaust, and reflections on genocide / Paul R. Bartrop -- Coming to terms with Amalek : testing the limits of hospitality / Henry F. Knight -- Theologies and practices of reconciliation -- Post-Shoah restitution of a different kind / John K. Roth -- The Holocaust, genocide, and the Catholic Church / Donald J. Dietrich -- Catholic views on Holocaust and genocide : a critical appraisal / John T. Pawlikowski -- Terror out of zion : making sense of scriptural teaching / Zev Garber -- Rape, religion, and genocide : an unholy silence / Carol Rittner.

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Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam is the first collection of essays by recognized scholars primarily in the field of religious studies to address this timely topic. In addition to theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Sudan from their own unique vantage point. In so doing, they supply a much needed additional contribution to the ongoing conversations proffered by historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists.

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