Violence and the World's Religious Traditions
An Introduction
Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts, and Michael Jerryson
Author Information
Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, and Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Edited by Margo Kitts, Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies and Coordinator of Religious Studies and East-West Classical Studies, Hawai'i Pacific University, and Edited by Michael Jerryson, Professor of Religious Studies, Youngstown State University
Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, and Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Margo Kitts is Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies and Coordinator of Religious Studies and East-West Classical Studies at Hawai'i Pacific University in Honolulu.
Michael Jerryson is Professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University.
Contributors:
GIDEON ARAN is a professor of Sociology & Anthropology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, specializing in religious and political extremism. His forthcoming publication is The Cult of Dismembered Limbs: Suicide Terrorism, Radical Religion, Contemporary Judaism, Body, Death and the Middle East Conflict.
VEENA DAS is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Structure and Cognition: Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual; Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India, Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary, Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty, and Co-author of Four Lectures on Ethics besides being the editor or co-editor of several books on themes of social suffering, violence, and the relation between philosophy and anthropology.
RON E. HASSNER is an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of War on Sacred Grounds (2009) and Religion on the Battlefield (2016), the editor of Religion in the Military Worldwide (2013), co-editor of International Relations and Religion (2016), as well as author of multiple articles on religion and conflict.
MICHAEL JERRYSON is professor of religious studies at Youngstown State University. He is the author of Mongolian Buddhism: The Rise and Fall of the Sangha (2008), Buddhist Fury: Religion and Violence in Southern Thailand (2011), co-editor with Mark Juergensmeyer, Buddhist Warfare (2010), and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism (2016).
MARK JUERGENSMEYER is professor of sociology and Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair of Global and Sikh Studies, and fellow and founding director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author or editor of over 20 books, including Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, and God in the Tumult of the Global Square.
MARGO KITTS is professor of humanities and coordinator of religious studies and East-West Classical Studies at Hawai'i Pacific University in Honolulu. She is the author of Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society (2005, 2011) and over 30 articles on Homer, ritual and violence, as well as co-editor of State, Power, and Violence (Vol. 3 of Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual, 2010) and, with Mark Juergensmeyer, Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence (2011).
BRUCE B. LAWRENCE is Marcus Family Professor of the Humanities Emeritus, Professor of Islamic Studies, and Inaugural Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center. On the faculty at Duke University since 1971, he has won several fellowships and authored or co-authored, edited or co-edited, translated or co-translated eighteen books, including Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden (2005) and The Qur'an: A Biography (2007).
CYNTHIA KEPPLEY MAHMOOD is Frank Moore Chair of Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology at Central College in Iowa. She is the author of Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants (1996), The Guru's Gift: Exploring Gender Equality with Sikh Women in North America (2000, with Stacy Brady), A Sea of Orange: Writings on the Sikhs and India (2002), One More Voice: Perspectives on South Asia (2012), and many academic articles on the anthropology of religion and conflict in South Asia
MEIR SHAHAR is professor of Chinese studies at Tel Aviv University. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts; Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature; and Oedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and his Indian Origins.
LLOYD STEFFEN is Professor of Religion Studies, University Chaplain and Director of both the Lehigh Prison Project and the Center for Dialogue, Ethics and Spirituality at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. He is a religion and ethics scholar whose books include Ethics and Experience: Moral Theory from Just War to Abortion; Holy War, Just War: Exploring the Moral Meaning of Religious Violence; and The Ethics of Death: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives in Dialogue, co-written with Dennis Cooley.
ANDREW J. STRATHERN and PAMELA J. STEWART (STRATHERN) are a husband and wife research team at the department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, as Andrew W. Mellon Professor and Senior Research Associate, respectively. They are the co-authors and co-editors of over 45 books and over two hundred articles, including their coauthored books, Violence (2002), Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip (2004), and Peace-making and the Imagination (2011).
NATHALIE WLODARCZYK is vice president and a research scholar for Information Handling Services (known as IHS), a global economics organization. She has taught contemporary security issues at both King's College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies. Nathalie has a PhD in War Studies from Kings College London, and a BSc and MSc from the London School of Economics in International Relations. She is the author of Magic and Warfare: Appearance and Reality in Contemporary African Conflict and Beyond (2009).
