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The Debate About the European Wars of Religion as a Challenge to Interdisciplinary Cooperation
Ist Teil von
The European Wars of Religion, 2016, p.253-264
Ort / Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In the Western world, especially in Europe, religion has oen been accused
of being the main root of violence in our world. Closely connected to this
accusation is a master narrative that it was the European Wars of Religion that
led to the secular state enabling people to live in peace and tolerate each other.
is master narrative identies religion with violence whereas the secular state is
seen as the tool for peace towards which the modern world seems to be heading.
A quote from Richard Dawkins’s book e God Delusion illustrates the widely
shared identication of religion with violence referring also to the European wars
of religions by mentioning the Gunpowder Plot (1605) a failed assassination
attempt against King James I of England by English Catholics:Imagine, with John Lennon, a world with no religion. Imagine no suicide bombers,
no 9/11, no 7/7, no Crusades, no witch-hunts, no Gunpowder Plot, no Indian
partition, no Israeli/Palestinian wars, no Serb/Croat/Muslim massacres, no
persecution of Jews as ‘Christ-killers’, no Northern Ireland ‘troubles’, no ‘honour
killings’ … Imagine no Taliban to blow up ancient statues, no public beheadings
of blasphemers, no ogging of female skin for the crime of showing an inch of it.1