Classics

Episodes of collective violence have come to us in forms of texts that were designed in such a way as to manipulate the perception and emotional response of a specific audience. Jonathan Stutz shows that, for this reason, early Christian narratives on religious violence have to be read against the background of ancient perceptions of violence and alongside ancient texts that aimed at legitimizing or de-legitimizing the use of physical coercion.

Religious communities have been experiencing a worldwide boom. In this volume, which resulted from a conference at the Max Weber College, legal experts, sociologists and scholars in religious studies analyze the interaction between constitutional laws and religions.

The dialog between the religions and various cultures has shown their common ground and emphasized the differences which characterize the individual religion or cultural identity. This volume shows how the boundaries between the talk of apologetics and philosophical argumentation fade and combines historical and contemporary case studies from the cultural areas of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.