HIST114 Lecture 5: Hist 114 - Lecture 5
22 Jan 2018
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Hist 114 - lecture 5 religious violence is not necessarily an act of terror religious violence has little to nothing to do with human agency. Concept of indirect coercion central to the understanding of modern terrorism. Modern terrorism as rationally comprehensible instrumental process, religious violence lacks this dimension. Emphasis on extranormality violence goes beyond accepted moral restrains. Boundaries between religious and ethnic motivation - problematic. difficult to accept different non-western functions of society. No separation of church and state; sacred and secular; in many societies. Islam is a religious culture resisting separation of secular from spiritual jurisdiction. Ancient arab cultural bedrock: god as the ultimate controlling agency superimposed on an animalistic infrastructure. Concept of jihad - often presented as inbuilt incitement of violence. Described the process of bettering oneself, both spiritually and otherwise. spiritual struggle. Translation holy war is misleading, literally means striving or struggle. Messianism: expectations of imminent transformation of the world.
