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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
God's grace from ground zero	Stephen Sorenson,Jim Cymbala	Offers spiritual guidance for finding hope in the midst of grief after the tragedy of the September 11th terrorist attacks.	OL15927069W
The Blackwell companion to religion and violence	Andrew R. Murphy	"The timely Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who provide a coherent state of the art overview of the complex relation…	OL16190447W
Sacred violence	Brent D. Shaw	"One route to understanding the nature of specifically religious violence is the study of past conflicts. Distinguished ancient historian Brent D. Shaw provides a new analysis of the intense sectaria…	OL16212671W
The darkening age	Catherine Nixey	Offers a history of the rise of Christianity in the classical world that focuses on its terrible cost, in terms of violence and dogmatic intolerance, that helped bring upon the dark ages. "A bold ne…	OL19738235W
Under the Banner of Heaven	Jon Krakauer	Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to ext…	OL1974545W
Violence against women and children	Marie M. Fortune	Violence against women and children has reached epidemic proportions, harming thousands of individuals each year. Victims as well as perpetrators turn to their pastors for help; pastors turn to their…	OL20543951W
Fragile dignity	L. Juliana M. Claassens,Klaas Spronk	Introduction /Julie Claassens and Klaas Spronk --The hermeneutics of dignity /Frits de Lange --Response /Gerrit Brand --Figuring God and humankind : the imago Dei in view of anthropologies in the Old…	OL20548023W
The Oxford handbook of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding	Little, David,R. Scott Appleby,Atalia Omer	This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. Looking far beyond the traditional parameters of the field, the contrib…	OL20973866W
Microaggressions in ministry	Cody J. Sanders	Carlos, a third-generation U.S. citizen from New Jersey whose family emigrated from Colombia many years before Carlos was born, is often complimented on how articulate he is and asked how long he has…	OL20974652W
Recovering from un-natural disasters	Laurie Kraus	Recovering from Un-Natural Disasters is a must-read handbook for pastors and church leaders of communities who could or perhaps already have experienced an un-natural disaster, such as gun violence, …	OL20975055W
Raising Abel	James Alison	The US edition; in the UK, published under the title Living in the End Times	OL2619201W
Dying for Heaven	Ariel Glucklich	In Dying for Heaven, Georgetown scholar and advisor to the defense community Ariel Glucklich explains the religious motivation of terrorism. This provocative work of political science argues that the…	OL3251789W
Al Qaeda	Paul L. Williams	This book explores the history of Islam and the cultural, political, and socio-economic forces that have cultivated an environment that nurtures terrorism and idolizes its leaders. "On September 11,…	OL4644953W
Sacred Fury	Charles Selengut	History, marred with the actions of fundamentalist and extremist groups, continues to highlight religion as a cause for violent action. But how 'religious' is this violence? And what drives the faith…	OL8023301W
Cross Purposes	Anthony Bartlett	"In this seminal study of the Christian theory of the atonement, Anthony Bartlett claims that a logic of violence and sacrifice has dominated the key Western doctrines of atonement. Throughout histor…	OL8873938W
The Production Of Hindu-muslim Violence In Contemporary India (Jackson School Publications in Inter…	Paul R. Brass	"Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that it would seem to defy effective analysis. Paul R. …	OL9083194W