{"product_id":"confronting-religious-violence-9781498228817","title":"Confronting Religious Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Catherine M. Wallace\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cascade Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cascade Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Fundamentalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfronting Religious Violence: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination tells the tale of Christian theocracy in the West. Who converted whom was never entirely clear: the empire did stop feeding people to the lions for public entertainment; but Christianity was theologically corrupted by its official role in legitimating empire-as-usual. That theological corruption led to crusades, inquisitions, torture, and so forth. And it leaves us with a major question: is God violent? More dangerously yet: is violence our only option in response to wrongdoing? Are we morally obligated to injure those who have injured others, to kill those who have killed others? If theocracy is a terrible idea, what is the proper relationship between church and state? We can't say that the state is never morally accountable at all. Furthermore: despite constitutional separation of church and state, hard-right Christian fundamentalism continues to play a culturally significant role in advocating military action abroad and supporting state violence at home. There is a lot at stake in reclaiming the systematic nonviolence and moral imagination of Jesus of Nazareth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cascade Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45127146274967,"sku":"9781498228817","price":1320.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781498228817.webp?v=1767144945","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/confronting-religious-violence-9781498228817","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}