THINKING COMPARATIVELY ABOUT RELIGION AND WAR

Author: Johnson, James Turner

Source: Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 36, Number 1, March 2008 , pp. 157-179(23)

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Abstract:

In contrast to the period when the Journal of Religious Ethics began publishing, the study of religion in relation to war and connected issues has prospered in recent years. This article examines three collections of essays providing comparative perspectives on these topics, two recently authored studies of Buddhism and Islam in relation to war, and a compendious collection of texts on Western moral tradition concerning war, peace, and related issues from classical Greece and Rome to the present.

Keywords: Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism; Islam; jihad; Judaism; just war; peace; Western moral tradition

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9795.2008.00340.x

Affiliations: 1: Department of Religion, SAS, Rutgers University, 70 Lipman Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, 732.932.9637, Email: jtj@rci.rutgers.edu

Publication date: 2008-03-01