Professor Madawi Al Rasheed

Religiously Motivated Violence in the Contemporary World

 

 
Madawi Al-Rasheed and Marat Shterin (Eds)

From India to Iraq, from London to Lahore, the relationship between religion and violence is one of the most bitterly
contested and casually misrepresented issues of our times. This groundbreaking volume brings together expert
perspectives from a variety of fields to probe it. It seeks to shift analytical focus on to the contexts in which violence is
expressed, enacted and reported. Ranging from Islam to Buddhism to new religious movements in the West, Dying for
Faith offers a comprehensive and highly original account of a complex phenomenon that has so far attracted sensational
media coverage but scant academic attention.

Madawi Al-Rasheed is Professor of Anthropology of Religion at King’s College London.
Marat Shterin is a Lectuer in Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College, London.