Religion and Violence
de Vries, Hent (Professor of Humanities & Philosophy , The Johns Hopkins University)![Religion and Violence](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/166/1663067/CHSBZCOP031663067.jpg)
Does violence inevitably shadow our ethico-political engagements and decisions, including our understandings of identity, whether collective or individual? Questions that touch upon ethics and politics can greatly benefit from being rephrased in terms borrowed from the arsenal of religious and theological figures, because the association of such figures with a certain violence keeps moralism, whether in the form of fideism or humanism, at bay....