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10.4000/cerri.1965

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Religions and violence in the context of modernity

Abstract

This issue brings together contributions from a colloquium ‘Religion and Conflit. Violence thought and thought of violence in post-modernity’, which took place in Paris in May 2014. Discussions had been initiated in 2012 by the post-doctoral group of the Group of Society, religions and secularism (GSRL, UMR: CNRS-EPHE). It was based on the fact that religious sciences had little systematic questioning of the links between religions, violence and modernity. Similarly, studies on violence — physical or symbolic — rarely took into account cultural or anthropological factors (Thierry Camous, John R. Hall). However, a large number of resources exist which involve, either centrally or otherwise, religious factors, research often carried out on such a conflict (World War II, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Northern Irish conflict, etc.) or some kind of mobilisation or speech (Christian fundamentalists in the United States, sect Aum Shinrikyo in Japan, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, appeal to Jihad for Syria, anti-colonial struggles, etc.). This is the implicit idea at the heart of this issue: religion, as a macro-ecological category, is a reality which not only suffers and practises violence, but also thinks it, sometimes by developing genuine ideological systems focused on its representation. It is in this spirit that the issue wishes to be set up, by questioning the diversity of contexts in which the links between religion and violence are reinvented, in the light of a direct or underlying reflection on post-modern discourse. Publishers Daniela Campo, Emmanuel Kreis, Christophe Monnot and Sara Teinturier Publishers of this issue would like to thank GSRL management, and especially Philippe Portier and Denis Pelletier, for their support to the team of GSRL’s young researchers and post-doctoral candidates. We also thank Julia David, Yusuke Inenaga and Vincent Vilmain, originally with Daniela Campo of the GSRL Post-PhD Group, and the organisers of the Giulia MAROTTA and Romain Sèze Colloquium. We would like to thank you for finally drafting the journal for opening its columns, and in particular Béatrice Bakhouche for following up on this file.

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