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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Gideon Aran and Ron Hassner begin their article on "Religious Violence in Judaism: Past and Present" by noting different scholarly ways to think about the relationships between religion and violence. First, there are those who believe that religion is inherently violent and thereby trivialize history and reduce the agency of actors belonging to religion. Second, there are those who argue certain religions have a violent core and other religious traditions are inherently peaceful. They too strip the actors within these traditions of responsibility or agency. They are violent or peaceful because that is the nature of their religious traditions. Third, there are those who argue in a classic instrumentalist view in which religion is a very effective system to either mobilize people to act violently or to justify the violence.
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