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The Ambivalence of the Sacred - Religion, Violence, and... - 5/22/2011 10:03:42 PM   
juliaoceania


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Status: offline 		I thought I would post a link to this book because it had a deep influence on how I view religion based conflicts...It almost changed the course of my grad work.

The entire book is online.. I paid 70 bucks for it, so it is quite a value!

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/apple/frame.htm

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RE: The Ambivalence of the Sacred - Religion, Violence,... - 5/22/2011 10:26:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, this 'puter has some sort of Adobe allergy, so I can't get to the book. Honestly though, if you spent $70 fairly recently, and now it's online for free, either your education hasn't made you smart, or this book and/or author has been thoroughly discredited.



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RE: The Ambivalence of the Sacred - Religion, Violence,... - 5/22/2011 10:33:01 PM   
juliaoceania


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Status: offline 		The book is well regarded. It is offered freely because like many of his works it was commissioned. The Carnegie Foundation paid for it. I bought it when it had just been released.

He has done work for other nonprofits, and is considered the best informed expert on religious violence. I was assigned the book for a class called the Anthropology of Religion. The professor assigned this book because he thought we would benefit from looking at the positive of how religion can be used as a force of peace... it does not have to be a force of violence. It uses case studies, etc, to make its point

Although, you are free to dismiss it, I surely never will. The first semester I was in grad school I took a second religion class for grad students and used this and several other Appleby books to present ideas about fundamentalism... the professor of that class pulled me aside and told me the paper read well enough to be the intro into a thesis. I almost went that direction, but changed my mind.



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RE: The Ambivalence of the Sacred - Religion, Violence,... - 5/22/2011 10:36:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		The Carnegie Foundation isnt that well thought of around Pittsburgh.

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RE: The Ambivalence of the Sacred - Religion, Violence,... - 5/22/2011 10:39:20 PM   
juliaoceania


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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

The Carnegie Foundation isnt that well thought of around Pittsburgh.



I do not think well of the Ford Foundation or the Getty either, but that doesn't mean they haven't funded some stellar scholarship and art

I was explaining why the book is free. I was not offering up the sponsors as proof of its validity.

I tend to read something and its cites before I dismiss it.. just the way I was trained to review material

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RE: The Ambivalence of the Sacred - Religion, Violence,... - 5/22/2011 10:41:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Im not dismissing the book... just that offering up the name isnt helping your cause.

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Telling me to take Midol wont help your butthurt.
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Dont judge me because I sin differently than you.
If you want it sugar coated, dont ask me what i think! It would violate TOS.

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RE: The Ambivalence of the Sacred - Religion, Violence,... - 5/22/2011 10:42:40 PM   
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