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Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Author(s): Steven Leonard Jacobs (Author)
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Publication Date: July 16, 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 368 pages
- ISBN-10: 0739135899
- ISBN-13: 9780739135891
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Religion has too often been a cause of genocide. The essays in this collection examine why, and then propose how religious texts and traditions could be re-interpreted so that religions could become forces against genocide.” ―Gregory Stanton, President, The International Association of Genocide Scholars
“Confronting Genocide is an essential exploration of this complex dimension of the conceptual foundations of genocide. Steven Jacobs has done superb work in bringing together a broad and rich range of scholarly perspectives. A necessary contribution to genocide studies.” ―Peter Balakian, author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response
“Recommended.” ―Choice Reviews
“My God! This book about what our Gods really instruct us-is it ‘Do Not Kill,’ or is it ‘Yes, Kill in My Name’ (or alternately both notwithstanding the contradiction)-deserves our deep thoughtfulness along with considerable appreciation to the editor for addressing soundly a largely neglected and censored topic. Steven Jacobs leads us to important encounters with ‘exclusivity, superiority, privileged access to God’; ‘chosen people’-ness and ‘promised land-ness’; ‘nationalist-racist ideology undergirded by religious thought’; and how religion often ‘divides humanity into believers and infidels, into the saved and the damned.’ Highly recommended.” ―Israel W. Charny, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide
About the Author
Mohammad Omar Farooq is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Finance at the College of Business Administration, University of Bahrain.
Dr Paul Mojzes is Chair of the Religious Studies and Humanities Department at Rosemont College, Pennsylvania, USA.
He is a native of Yugoslavia, educated at Belgrade University, Florida Southern College, and Boston University. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies and the editor of Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe. He is the author of Christian-Marxist Dialogue in Eastern Europe and editor of Varieties of Christian-Marxist Dialogue as well as the writer of numerous articles. He is a member of the United Methodist Church.
PAUL MOJZES is Professor of Religious Studies at Rosemont College, Rosemont, Pennsylvania.
Steven Leonard Jacobs is Emeritus Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Alabama, USA, and has written extensively on Biblical Studies, translation and interpretation, Jewish-Christian Relations; and Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Steven Leonard Jacobs is professor of religious studies and holds the Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies in the department of religious studies at the University of Alabama.
