General Resources
Journal of Religion and Violence, published by the Philosophy Documentation Center, Margo Kitts, general editor. https://www.pdcnet.org/jrv/Journal-of-Religion-and-ViolenceJuergensmeyer, Mark, and Margo Kitts, eds. Princeton Readings in Religion and
Violence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Amazon preview: https://www.amazon.com/Princeton-Readings-Religion-Violence-Juergensmeyer/dp/0691129142/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=princeton+readings+religion+violence&qid=1593818938&sr=8-1
Google Books preview: https://books.google.com/books/about/Princeton_Readings_in_Religion_and_Viole.html?id=zC70k7Y4-AMC
Juergensmeyer, Mark, Margo Kitts, and Michael Jerryson, eds. The Oxford Handbook
of Religion and Violence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Amazon preview: https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Handbook-Religion-Violence-Handbooks/dp/0190270098/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=oxford+handbook+religion+violence&qid=1593819317&sr=8-1
Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Oxford_Handbook_of_Religion_and_Viol/CEcSDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=The+Oxford+Handbook++of+Religion+and+Violence.+Oxford:+Oxford+University+Press,&printsec=frontcover
Lewis, James R., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Amazon preview: https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-Religion-Terrorism-Companions-ebook/dp/B073133GZH/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Cambridge+Companion+to+Religion+and+Terrorism&qid=1593819382&sr=8-1
Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Cambridge_Companion_to_Religion_and/S74pDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
Murphey, Andrew, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Amazon preview: https://www.amazon.com/Blackwell-Companion-Religion-Violence-Companions-ebook/dp/B006N7RLMO/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Blackwell+Companion+to+Religion+and+Violence&qid=1593819697&sr=8-1
Google Books preview: https://books.google.com/books?id=MF2Oxz3a0XwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false
Resources for Understanding Violence
Bowman, Glenn. “The Violence of Identity.” In Anthropology of Violence and Conflict, edited by Bettina E. Schmidt and Ingo W. Schröder, 25–46. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.Cowan, Samatha. “Defining Violence: It’s Not as Simple as You Think.” TakePart.com Big Issues vol. 11, “Violence and Redemption.” http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/09/19/defining-violence/
Farmer, Paul. “An Anthropology of Structural Violence.” Current Anthropology 45, no. 3 (2004): 305–25. Paywall protected journal record: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/382250
Nimni, Oren. “Defining Violence.” Current Affairs, September 17, 2017. Open access: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/09/defining-violence
Revue Internationale de Philosophie 67, no. 265(3) (2013). Special issue on philosophy and violence. Open access: https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-revue-internationale-de-philosophie-2013-3.htm
Riches, David, ed. The Anthropology of Violence. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986. See especially Riches, “The Phenomenon of Violence,” pp. 1–27.
Rutherford, Alison, Anthony B. Zwi, Natalies J. Grove, and Alexander Butchart. “Violence: A Glossary.” Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 61, no. 8 (August 2007): 676–80. Open access: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652990/
Whitehead, Neil L., ed. Violence. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research, 2004.
World Health Organization, Violence Prevention Alliance. “Definition and Typology of Violence.” https://www.who.int/violenceprevention/approach/definition/en/
Academic Studies of Religious Violence and Violent Religion
Brekke, Torkel. Fundamentalism: Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fundamentalism/JGooYIEd9h4C?hl=en&gbpv=0Coady, C. A. J. “Violence and Religion.” Revue Internationale de Philosophie 67, no. 265(3) (2013): 237–57. Open access: https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-revue-internationale-de-philosophie-2013-3-page-237.htm
de Vries, Hent. Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Religion_and_Violence/Faz-1viIgpYC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Eller, Jack David. Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence: Religious Violence Across Culture and History. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2011. Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cruel_Creeds_Virtuous_Violence/hNSIxgP9pwMC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Greer, Tammy, Mitchell Berman, Valerie Varan, Lori Bobrycki, and Sheree Watson. “We Are a Religious People; We Are a Vengeful People.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 44, no. 1 (2005): 45–57. Paywall protected journal record: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2005.00264.x
Hassner, Ron E. Religion on the Battlefield. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. Amazon preview: https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Battlefield-Ron-Hassner/dp/0801451078/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Religion+on+the+Battlefield&qid=1593821163&sr=8-2
Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, 4th ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2017. Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Terror_in_the_Mind_of_God_Fourth_Edition/W4EmDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Juergensmeyer, Mark. Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to al Qaeda. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of
California Press, 2008. Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Global_Rebellion/RqDY7x72dM8C?hl=en&gbpv=0
Juergensmeyer, Mark, Margo Kitts, and Michael Jerryson, eds. Violence and the
World’s Religious Traditions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Google Books preview:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Violence_and_the_World_s_Religious_Tradi/RA81DQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
King, Richard. “The Association of ‘Religion’ with Violence: Reflections on a Modern Trope.” In Religion and Violence in South Asia: Theory and Practice, edited by John Hinnells and Richard King, 226–57. London: Routledge, 2006.
Kitts, Margo. Element of Ritual and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2018. Google Books preview: https://books.google.com/books?id=NnNqDwAAQBAJ
Kitts, Margo, ed. Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Immolation: Religious Perspectives
on Suicide. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Martyrdom_Self_sacrifice_and_Self_immola/XHhUDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Kitts, Margo. Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals and
Narratives in the Iliad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sanctified_Violence_in_Homeric_Society/h_19T0dxRYQC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Kosek, Joseph Kip. “Religion and Nonviolence in American History.” Religion
Compass 6, no. 8 (2012): 402–13. Paywall protected journal record: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2012.00365.x
Lewis, James R. Violence and New Religious Movements. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Violence_and_New_Religious_Movements/5CqS3ILwnmsC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Lincoln, Bruce. Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion After September 11. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Holy_Terrors_Second_Edition/LNJZQVZIzegC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Lincoln, Bruce. “Conflict.” In Critical Terms for Religious Studies, edited by Mark C. Taylor, 55–69. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Puett, Michael J. “Social Order and Social Chaos.” In The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies, edited by Robert A. Orsi, 109–29. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Riesebrodt, Martin. “Fundamentalism and the Political Mobilization of Women.” In The Political Dimensions of Religion, edited by Said Amir Arjomand, 243–71. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
Robinson, Brian K. Lethal Violence and Religion: Institutional and Denominational Effects on Homicide and Suicides in U.S. Counties. El Paso: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2015. Publisher’s preview: https://www.lfbscholarly.com/product-detail/lethal-violence-and-religion-institutional-and-denominational-effects-on-homicide-and-suicides-in-us-counties
Rowley, Matthew. “What Causes Religious Violence? Three Hundred Claimed Contributing Causes.” Journal of Religion and Violence 2, no. 3 (2014): 361–402. Paywall protected journal record: https://www.pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=jrv&fq=jrv%2fVolume%2f8998%7c2%2f8997%7cIssue%3a+3%2f
Selengut, Charles. Sacred Fury: Understanding Religious Violence. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sacred_Fury/p3CIDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Stern, Jessica. Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Terror_in_the_Name_of_God/13iAVXvu6jQC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Stewart, Pamela J., and Andrew Strathern. “Religion and Violence from an Anthropological Perspective.” In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence, edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts, and Michael Jerryson, 375–84. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Wellman, James K. Jr., and Kyoko Tokuno. “Is Religious Violence Inevitable?” Journal
for the Scientific Study of Religion 43, no. 3 (September 2004): 291–6. Paywall protected journal record: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2004.00234.x
Sources on RV Maximalism and Minimalism (key concepts in the framing of the book)
Examples of maximalism
Carlin, George. “Complaints and grievances.” Home Box Office. 2001. Video recording, 56:15. Accessed December 1, 2019. www.dailymotion.com/video/xv1d12. (This can also usually be found on YouTube in part and in whole.)Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. Boston, MA and New York: Mariner, 2008. Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_God_Delusion/yq1xDpicghkC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Harris, Sam. “Losing our spines to save our necks.” Huffington Post, May 5, 2008. Updated May 25, 2011. Open access: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/losing-our-spines-to-save_b_100132
Harris, Sam. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004. Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_End_of_Faith_Religion_Terror_and_the/V1NXG1ob-WcC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Hitchens, Christopher. God Is Not Great: How Religion Ruins Everything. New York: Twelve Books, 2007. Google Books preview: https://books.google.com/books/about/God_Is_Not_Great.html?id=bOS9wTxSjsMC
William Cavanaugh’s minimalism
Cavanaugh, William T. The Myth of Religious Violence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Google Books preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Myth_of_Religious_Violence/NBXnj1W2ShwC?hl=en&gbpv=0Cavanaugh, William T. “Does Religion Cause Violence?” Harvard Divinity Bulletin 35, nos. 2 and 3 (Spring/Summer 2007). Open access: https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/articles/springsummer2007/does-religion-cause-violence
Cavanaugh, William T. “A Fire Strong Enough to Consume the House: ‘The Wars of Religion’ and the Rise of the State.” Modern Theology 11, no. 4 (October 1995): 397–420. Paywall protected journal record: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0025.1995.tb00073.x