Sanctified Aggression: Legacies of Biblical and Post-Biblical Vocabularies of ViolenceJonneke Bekkenkamp, Yvonne Sherwood A&C Black, 01.06.2004 - 256 Seiten Sanctified Aggression allies itself neither with the easy assumption that religions are by definition violent (and that only the secular/humanist/humane can offer a place of refuge from the ravages of religious authority) nor with the equally facile opposing view that religion expresses the "best" of human aspirations and that this best is always capable of diffusing or sublating the worst. Rather, it works from the premise that biblical, Jewish and Christian vocabularies continue to resonate, inspire and misfire. Some of the essays here explore how these vocabularies and symbols have influenced, or resonate with, events such as the massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland (1941), the Rwandan Massacre (1994), the tragedy at Columbine High School (1999) and the emergence of the "Phineas Priesthood" of white supremacists in North America. Other contributors examine how themes of martyrology, sacrifice and the messianic continue to circulate and mutate in literature, music, drama and film. The collective conclusion is that it is not possible to control biblical and religious violence by simply identifying canonical trouble-spots, then fencing them off with barbed wire or holding peace summits around them. Nor is it always possible to draw clear lines between problem and non-problem texts, witnesses and perpetrators, victims and aggressors or "reality" and "art". |
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Textual Carcasses and Isaacs Scar or What Jewish Interpretation Makes of the Violence that Almost Takes Place on Mt Moriah | 22 |
Fleshing Out the Text | 44 |
The Combined Contribution of Biblical TranslationInterpretation and Indigenous Myth to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide | 60 |
On the Rivers of Babylon Psalm 137 or between Victim and Perpetrator | 76 |
Racist Stereotyping in the Bible and the Justification of Discrimination | 92 |
Priestly and Prophetic Paradigms in Contemporary Apocalyptic Visions | 109 |
Messianic Victims or Victimized Messiah? Biblical Allusion and Violence in The Matrix | 139 |
The Martyrs of Columbine | 156 |
Violence and Victimization in Martyrdom Discourse and the Movies of Lars von Trier | 175 |
Victims andor Perpetrators? | 193 |
On Mapping Actual Hopes and Beliefs | 213 |
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The White Supremacist Bible and the Phineas Priesthood | 120 |
Edwin Morgans AD A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Jesus 2000 | 132 |
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