Avalos Hector:
Fighting Words
The Origins Of Religious Violence
Prometheus Books (United States), 2005
Hardback, 430 pages
Size: 237x160 mm
ISBN: 9781591022848
ISBN-10: 1591022843
List price: £18.99
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Fighting Words
Offering a theory for the role of religion in violent conflicts, this book argues that religion creates new scarcities on the basis of unverifiable or illusory criteria. It explains how four 'scarce' resources have figured repeatedly in creating religious violence: sacred space; the creation of holy scriptures; group privilege; and salvation.

