Call for Paper

• Religious violence
• Contemporary religious violence
• Religion, violence, crime and mass suicide
• Religious fanaticism and radicalism
• Relationships between religion and violence
• Criticism of religions as being violent
• Secularism as a response to religious violence
• Challenges to the views that religions are violent
• Islamist terrorism and radicalization
• The religious and political rhetoric of Western and Middle Eastern nations
• Analyses of religious violence throughout history, literature and culture
• Religion and violence within political, race and gender issues
• Islamist Jihad and religious (or political) violence.
• Empirical, anthropological or scientific work on religion and violence.
• Religious and non-religious approaches to violence, non-violent resistance and peace-building
• Religion and violence in literary and other texts
• Religion in violent historical events, including religious opposition to violence
• Religion, violence and Indigenous Peoples
• Christian or other religious extremist violence and its political effects in Western nations