September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror continues to cast a long shadow over the world. Religion, Terror and Violence brings together a group of distinguished scholars from a range of backgrounds and disciplines to explore the claim that acts of violence - most spectacularly the attack of September 11, 2001 and the international reaction to it - were intimately linked to cultural and social authorizing processes that could be called 'religious.'

This book provides a nuanced but incisive insight into the reaction of the discipline of religious studies to the post 9/11 world.

About the Author

Bryan Rennie is Vira I. Heinz Professor of Religion, and Chair of the Department of Religion, History, Philosophy, and Classics Westminster College. His publications include Reconstructing Eliade: Making Sense of Religion (1996), (editor) Changing Religious Worlds: The Meaning and End of Mircea Eliade (2001), (editor) Mircea Eliade: A Critical Reader (Equinox Press, 2006), and (editor) The International Eliade (SUNY Press, 2007).

Philip L. Tite is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Early Christian Literature and History, Department of Religious Studies, Willamette University. His previous publications include Compositional Transitions in 1 Peter: An Analysis of the Letter-Opening (1997) and Conceiving Peace and Violence: A New Testament Legacy (2004).

Reviews
'"Religion, Terror, and Violence" is a timely collection on an urgent set of issues. Paul Christopher Johnson's essay, skillfully combining theory, intellectual history, ethnographic observation and social criticism is, by itself, more than worth the price of admission. Maureen Korp's descriptive meditation on art and artists in response to 9/11 extends the intense interest by a number of contemporary students of religion in memorialization and memory to include other media, along with the architectural- a pioneering contribution, enriching this nascent field.' Jonathan Z. Smith is Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, USA 'The 9/11 attacks catapulted questions about the relation of religion to violence into the center of public discourse. What is the role of the religion scholar in that public conversation? This superb collection of twenty essays by engaged scholars and renowned public intellectuals--comparativists, historians, theologians, experts in myth and method as well as social and political thought--addresses this important question. The contributors offer unique perspectives on the religion-violence connection by attending not only to history, social dynamics and religious traditions, including Islam and Buddhism, but by poking around in less often visited areas of investigation: rhetoric, pedagogy, and aesthetics. This broad-minded, methodologically diverse collection of first-rate essays is a welcome addition to an expanding literature on religiously inspired violence, which is certainly among the preeminent issues of our time.' Lloyd Steffen is Professor of Religious Studies at Lehigh University, USA, and author of "Holy War, Just War: Exploring the Moral Meaning of Religious Violence "



Book Information
ISBN 9780415442312
Author Bryan Rennie
Format Paperback
Page Count 312
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 580g