SOC250Y1 Study Guide - Aboriginal Peoples In Canada
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Religion and war violent struggles between people and states. Religious values, beliefs, practices and their social articulation : in politics, in kinship, economics and educationand in war. Religion is often deeply implicated in group conflicts and violence: Hindu nationalist claimed mosque placed on site of hindu temple ram. Religions are either explicitly or implicitly ideologies of power, because the force/beings they worship, propitiate, are world-ordering (dominnat religion validate existing social power. They are world" sorderly beings, what happens on earlthly level is divine"s favour or disfavour) Religion will sacralise certain forms of combat, making it sacred, religious responsibility in invoking wars against certain groups: approved ways of fighting. Religion will provide worldview where warfare is legitimate, targets, goals and purposes and this is where we see variations across different religions war ethics and variations. Two basic orientations [ james aho, religious mythology and te art of war, 1981]
