خلاصه ماشینی:
The Ambivalence of the Sacred book attempts to articulate a framework for f onnulating specific answers, on a case-by-case basis, to three overarching questions pertaining to the seemingly ambivalent relationship between religion and violence.
Citing the cases of South Africa and the transf onnations in Roman Catholic teachings, in response to both state apartheid violence in the former, and to post-war era pressures for pluralism on the latter, chapter 1 examines the paradoxical and ambivalent logic of the sacred.
5) attempts to narrow the book's focus to the one conceptual resource of "reconciliation" and forgiveness, as has been developed in the Christian religious tradition and in the contexts of the conflict in Northern Ireland and post-apartheid South Africa.
The following chapter discusses the internal debates within both Christianity and Islam concerning issues of human rights, religious identity, and mission.
It Implicitly or explicitly the book sets the US declaration of independence in judgment over "revelation" and in effect relates religious understanding and interpretation to this new secular religion of humanity.
e. , Islam) does not in effect constitute the principal focus and target of Appleby's project, camouflaged by seemingly more detailed discussions of non-Islamic cases: an implicit and "ambivalent" disclaiming of bias and prejudice while proclaiming objectivity and neutrality.
Within this fissuring and infiltrating framework, Islamic groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah or Jihad, in their commitment to resistance and martyrdom and thus to choosing "death over life'' as Appleby accuses, would be marginalized and outlawed as "terrorists" by fellow "Muslim peacemakers".