How Long to Read Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence

How Long Does it Take to Read Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 32 minutes to read Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence by Jack David Eller

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The phrase religious violence often brings to mind dramatic events: the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, riots in India between Muslims and Hindus, or, farther back in history, the Crusades and the Thirty Years War. But as anthropologist Jack David Eller shows in this illuminating, in-depth study, violence in connection with religion is a very broad-based phenomenon encompassing all cultures and including a wide variety of activities and complex motives.Eller presents a wealth of case material, demonstrating the many manifestations of religious violence-not just war and terrorism, which are the focus of so many discussions of religiously motivated violence-but also more prevalent forms. He devotes separate chapters to:· sacrifice (both animal and human);· self-mortification (including self-injury, asceticism, and martyrdom);· religious persecution (from anti-Semitic pogroms to witchhunts);· ethno-religious conflict (including such hotspots as Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland, and the former Yugoslavia);· religious wars (from the ancient Hebrews' wars and the Christian Crusades to Islamic jihad and Hindu righteous wars);· and religious homicide and abuse (spousal abuse, genital mutilation, and dowry death, among other manifestations).In the final chapter, Religion and Nonviolence, Eller examines nonviolent and low-conflict societies and considers various methods of managing conflict.Taking a scrupulously objective approach, Eller neither accuses nor exonerates religion in regard to violence. Rather, he presents the evidence revealing which kinds of religious ideas and practices contribute to certain kinds of violence and why. In so doing, he goes a long way toward helping us understand the nature of violence generally, its complicated connections with religion, and how society in the future might avoid being blindsided by the worst aspects of human nature.Jack David Eller, PhD (Denver, CO), is the author of six other books, including Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives and Introducing Anthropology of Religion: Culture to the Ultimate. He is an assistant professor of anthropology at the Community College of Denver and the film editor for the Anthropology Review Database.

How long is Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence?

Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence by Jack David Eller is 451 pages long, and a total of 113,201 words.

This makes it 152% the length of the average book. It also has 138% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 18 minutes to read Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence aloud.

What Reading Level is Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence?

Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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