社會思想當代議題:宗教暴力

課程介紹 Course Introduction

Homo Necans (Man the Killer) Walter Burkert, Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, pp.1-48

Sacrifice 祭獻 Rene Girard, “Sacrifice as Sacral Violence and Substitution,” The Girard Reader, pp. 69-93. J. D. Eller, Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence, pp. 81-116.

Self-injury 自殘 Martyrdom殉教 Mircea Eliade, Shamanism, pp.33-35, 64-66. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain, pp. 27-38. L. B. Smith, Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: the Story of Martyrdom in the Western World, pp.3-20. J. D. Eller, Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence, pp. 117-159.

Persecution 迫害 Rene Girard, “The Scapegoat as Historical Referent”, “Stereotypes of Persecution”, The Girard Reader, pp. 97-117. Jules, Michelet, Introduction and Epilogue, Satanism and Witchcraft, pp. vii-xx, 307-311. J. D. Eller, Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence, pp. 161-205.

Sectarian and Ethno-Religious Conflicts 宗派與宗教族群衝突 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarianism J. D. Eller, Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence, pp. 207-240.

Cosmic War: Holy War/Jihad 聖戰 Michael Walzer, Arguing about War, pp. 3-22. John Kelsay, Islam and War, pp. 40-55. Mark Juergensmeyer, “Cosmic War,” Terror in the Mind of God, pp. 148-166. J. D. Eller, Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence, pp. 241-289.

Homicide and Abuse of Women and Children 殺虐婦幼 Fawzia Koofi, The Favored Daughter, pp.100-109. Qanta A. Ahmed, In the land of Invisible Women, pp. 228-248. Mona Eltahawy, “The God of Virginity,” Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, pp. 109-139. Saba Mahmood, “Secularism, Family Law, and Gender Inequality,” Religious Differene in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, pp. 111-148. M.N. Srinivas, “Some Reflections on Dowry” http://www.womenstudies.in/elib/dowry/dw_some_reflections.pdf Taliban vows to kill Malala the 14-year old teenage activist of Pakistan http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/world/asia/malala-yousafzai-faces-new-taliban-threat.html?_r=0 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibok_schoolgirls_kidnapping J. D. Eller, Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence, pp. 291-330.

Religion and Nonviolence 宗教與非暴力 J. D. Eller, Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence, pp. 331-372. 藏人為何自焚?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-n37tswWcw&feature=youtube_gdata

Terrorism 恐怖主義 Michael Walzer, “Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses,” Arguing about War, pp.51-66. Talal Asad, “Terrorism,” On Suicide Bombing, pp. 7-38.

Religious Nationalism, Problems of Democracy and Human Rights 宗教國族主義,民主與人權問題 Mark Juergensmeyer, “Can We Live With Religious Nationalism?” The New Cold War? Pp.193-202. Mark Juergensmeyer, Global Rebellion, pp. 9-38, 212-243. Oliveier Roy, Globalized Islam, pp.58-99.

Religious Nation, Majority, Minority 宗教國,多數,少數 Saba Mahmood, “Introduction”, Religious Difference in a Secular Age: a Minority Report, pp. 1-30. Mark Juergensmeyer, Global Rebellion, pp. 103-115 Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, pp.49-85. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/myanmars-killing-fields/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=film-myanmar&utm_content=body

Blasphemy褻瀆,Injurious Speech Acts傷害性言說行為, Death Fatwa 格殺教令,Apostasy 叛教,Excommunication 絕罰 Leonard Levy, Blasphemy: verbal offense against the sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie, pp.31-57, 551-567. Alain Cabantous, Blasphemy: Impious speech in the West from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century, pp. 1-8 “Intro: Language and the Sacred”, 201-205 “Conclusion: Blasphemy’s Comeback”. Talal Asad, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood, Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech. (Read particularly pp. 7-63, 101-145) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LdgehMw3r4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=U4-Syap0DQ0

The Future of Religious Revolution 宗教革命之展望 Asef Bayat, Life As Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, pp. 209-238. Mustafa Akyol, “The Turkish March to Islamic Liberalism,” Islam without Extremes, pp. 203-244. Hamid Dabashi, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism, pp.1-16. Hamid Dabashi, “Wrestling Islam from Islamists,” http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/02/201326124432686900.html

Spirituality of Africa, a Reflection Edward Wilmot Blyden, Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race, pp. 1-53. Okot P’Bitek, Decolonizing African Religions, pp. 19-27. Wole Soyinka, Of Africa, pp. 129-168.

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