Margo Kitts
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Buddhist Violence and Religious Authority
Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts, Stephen Jenkins, John M. Thompson, Ben Schonthal, Matthew King, Nathan McGovern, Blaze Marpet, Grisel d'Elena, Matthew Walton, Julie Ingersoll, Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Jamel Velji, Abby Kulisz, Andrew Atwell
Margo Kitts, Mark Juergensmeyer
This volume is a tribute to the work of Michael Jerryson, one of the initiators of the academic discourse on Buddhism and violence whose intellectual pursuits have resulted in a trailblazing shift in the academic study of Buddhism. Preconceived in the modern west as a pacific, chiefly meditative pra...
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Violence, Conspiracies, and New Religious Movements
Stimulated by the vast scholarly output of James Lewis, experts opine on violence, conspiracies, and new religious movements. On violence, Mark Juergensmeyer explains his “epistemic worldview analysis” in interviewing religious terrorists; Michael Barkun transnational conspiracy theories such as...