Name: Violence Of God And The War On Terror
Price: 11.9 GBP
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Author: Jeremy Young
ISBN: 9780232526660

All religions advocate peace, yet the growing significance of the connection between violence and religion cannot be denied. In this hard-hitting and provocative book, Jeremy Young explores the roots of this violence and finds it centrally located in the image and nature of God. Using the analogy of an abusive relationship, with God as a violent partner, Jeremy Young traces the influence of the psychology of such behaviour on Jewish, Christian and Islamic depictions of God. He argues that the monotheistic religions are responsible for so much violence in the world not because of distortions and misinterpretations, but because violence is at the irreducible core of their central visions of God. He describes how the dynamics of abuse influence historical and contemporary politics, and highlights the ways in which the images of God associated with the psychology of abuse continue to generate violence in the name of God in the contemporary world, including in 'the war on terror'.
In conclusion, he explores how such cycles of abuse and victimization can begin to be reversed, and suggests how these insights may be applied constructively to a reform of Christian belief and within the contemporary political situation.

Violence Of God And The War On Terror and The Air We Breathe

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No, not just another book on the war on terror, but a succinct and subtly new approach to the way we perceive our belief in the image and nature of God. All religions advocate peace, yet the growing significance of the connection between violence and religion cannot be denied. The author uses the useful analogy of an abusive relationship, with God as the violent partner. He traces the background of all the major Abrahamic faiths and the influence of the psychology of the behaviour of each faith. He attributes much of the violence and terror in the world on the distortions and misrepresentations of the monotheistic religions and how the history and psychology of such belief influences the way that governments and nations abuse their peaceful role – especially the “war on terror”. A fascinating insight into the way that major governments can begin to think that they are always in the right; read it and be enlightened, but don’t think that the content will be comforting!

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