Chapter
Introduction: The Westphalian System
The Clash of Civilizations
Chapter 1 SACRED MEMORY AND THE SECULAR WORLD: THE POLAND NARRATIVES
Jewish Narratives of Poland: An Intimate Ethnography
Return to Poland: Journey beyond Myth
Mourning in Jedwabne: Sites of Memory and Memorialization
Return to Poland: Journey into History
Nationalism and the Making of Fixed Imaginaries: Ethnic Poland and the Jews
Chapter 2 A MESSIANIC MULTIPLE: WEST PAPUA, JULY 1998
Introduction: Signs of Hope
The United Nations, He Has Sins
Sunday, 5 July 1998, 7:00 am
Sunday, 5 July 1998, 3:00 pm
Chapter 3 LINCOLN, THE MINISTERS OF RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN JEREMIAD
Introduction: An Almost Chosen People
Abolitionists and Anti-Biblical “Chosenness”: Theodore Parker and Henry Ward Beecher
Southern Religion: Pessimism, Slavery and Biblical Literalism
Stringfellow, De Bow and Palmer
Return to Lincoln: Idiosyncratic Jeremiad
Chapter 4 SPIRITUAL VIOLENCE: MAX WEBER AND NORBERT ELIAS ON RELIGION AND CIVILIZATION
Weber and Elias on Religion and Civilization
Military Techniques and Charisma: The Cheyenne
Chapter 5 QUAKERS, THE ORIGINS OF THE PEACE TESTIMONY AND RESISTANCE TO WAR TAXES
Introduction: Nonviolence and the Society of Friends
Historians and the Quaker Peace Testimony
Pacifists and Quakers on Pacifism
The Quaker Peace Testimony
The Question of War Taxes
Quakers and the Question of War Taxes in the Last 40 Years
Chapter 6 A SACRED GROUND FOR PEACE: VIOLENCE, TOURISM AND SANCTIFICATION IN HIROSHIMA 1960–1970
Preserving the “Temple of Peace”
Hurling Bricks at the “Tourist City”
Chapter 7 THE SECTARIAN AS A CATEGORY OF SECULAR POWER: SECTARIAN TENSIONS AND JUDICIAL AUTHORITY IN LEBANON
The Crime of Stoking Sectarian Tensions: Signification, Interpretation, Context
Case No. 1, Year 1972: Religion, Colonialism and the Nation
Case No. 2, Year 2005: Politics, Civil War and Sovereignty
Case No. 3, Year 2007: Civility, Freedom and Culture
Chapter 8 THE COMMODIFICATION OF LOVE: GANDHI, KING AND 1960s COUNTERCULTURE
Love and Revolutionary Power
Let’s Buy the World a Coke
Chapter 9 THE RELIGION OF BROTHERLY LOVE: LEO TOLSTOY AND MAX WEBER
Introduction: Axial-Age Religions
Religion and the Calling of the Warrior
Max Weber and Early Buddhism
Krishna, Arjuna and the Buddha
Tolstoy and Weber on Love
Chapter 10 CONCLUSION: WAR AND PEACE
The Declaration of Human Rights
The Cosmopolitan Imagination
Conclusion: From Augsburg to The Hague