Religion Of Violence Research Articles

Menelusuri Jejak-jejak Kekerasan dalam Islam

Islam is merely claimed as "violence religion". It may be true or false, or even it is just a "mythology". But It must be understood that, in fact, in the history of Islam, some kinds of violence have risen because of action of individual or group of Moslem by the name of Islamic religion. Beginning from scripturalism, from Qoran and Sunnah, the texts was understood and interpreted for the sake of action, created an aqidah and syari'ah, than created an attitude and behavior of life of Moslem; and because of it's model of interpretation that faced to action and confronted with current condition and development of modern society in various aspects: political, social, cultural, and economical aspect, so militant Moslem groups rose against the unjustice actions, not only faced to another group with different religion but also to another Moslem group.

Fundamentalist violence: political violence and political religion in modern conflict

There is more to modern ‘political religions’ than political ritual and religious semantics as is normally assumed with regard to National Socialism and other totalitarian regimes. Ideologies and political style do matter, but they do not provide the answer as to how ‘dead certainty’ was achieved about the ultimate mission. The terror of the revolutionary ‘furies’ and the ‘sacrifice’ of national revivalism provide a historical trajectory for the proposition that in the modern world it is not the violence religion, but the religion that is in the violence. Fundamentalist violence ‐ from the Holocaust to the attacks of 11 September 2001 ‐ must therefore be seen as the touchstone for an economy of the sacred in a secularised world. Thus, the ‘morality of violence’ (Sorel) feeds into acts of political terrorism and genocide not just by way of legitimation but also as a proof of the transcendent quality of political violence itself.