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Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’
Analysing three cases of British colonial violence that occurred in the latter half of the 19th century, this book argues that all three share commonalities, including the role of racial prejudices in justifying the perpetration of extreme colonial violence. Exploring the connections and comparisons between the Perak War (1875–76), the 'Hut Tax' Revolt in Sierra Leone (1898–99) and the Anglo-Egyptian War of Reconquest in the Sudan (1896–99), Gordon highlights the significance of decision-making processes, communication between London and the periphery and the influence of individual colonial administrators in outbreaks of violence. This study reveals the ways in which racial prejudices...
The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide
The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide explores the many and sometimes complicated ways in which religion, faith, doctrine, and practice intersect in societies where mass atrocity and genocide occur. This volume is intended as an entry point to questions about mass atrocity and genocide that are asked by and of people of faith and is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, historical events, and heated debates in this subject area. The 39 contributions to the handbook, by a team of international contributors, span five continents and cover four millennia. Each explores the intersection of religion, faith, and mainly state-sponsored mass atrocity and genoci...
God Rests in Rwanda
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Religion and Violence in Western Traditions
This book examines the connection between religion and violence in the Western traditions of the three Abrahamic faiths, from ancient to modern times. It addresses a gap in the scholarly debate on the nature of religious violence by bringing scholars that specialize in pre-modern religions and scriptural traditions into the same sphere of discussion as those specializing in contemporary manifestations of religious violence. Moving beyond the question of the “authenticity” of religious violence, this book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines. Contributors explore the central role that religious texts have played in encouraging, as well as confronting, violence. The inter...
Folkmord
Folkmordet i Rwanda 1994. Nazisternas förintelse av judar i Europa under andra världskriget. Kommunistregimers övergrepp på egna befolkningar i Ryssland och Sovjetunionen från 1918, i Kina från 1949 och i Kambodja 1975–1979. Folkmord. Historien om ett brott mot mänskligheten tar ett stort, globalt grepp om de mest avskyvärda händelser som historien rymmer: folkmord. Brott begångna mot människor på grund av vilka de är, inte för vad de gjort. Klas-Göran Karlsson är professor i historia vid Lunds universitet och har ägnat mycket av sin forskning åt modern historia, etnisk rensning och brott mot mänskligheten i bred bemärkelse. I denna bok får läsaren ett djupgående, historiskt perspektiv som går ända tillbaka till antiken, men med särskilt fokus riktat mot massmord under modern tid. Det är under 1900-talet som nya tekniska, byråkratiska och ideologiska utvecklingar möjliggjort övergrepp i stor skala. I Folkmord: Historien om ett brott mot mänskligheten lyckas författaren på ett föredömligt sätt sammanfatta ofattbart grymma händelser i ett överskådligt och koncist omfång.
