NV in the West. Judeo-Christian & Islamic Sources

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Contents

00:00—04:00
04:01—07:45
07:56—13:32
13:33—17:34
17:35—33:23
33:24—43:23
43:24—53:30
53:31—1:00:10
1:00:11—end
 Course announcements
Nagler’s theory of religion, and its implications for nv, Gandhi’s three rules for successful prayer
Caveats to Nagler’s theory of religion, kathenotheism, monotheism and nonviolence
Q&A: atheism and nonviolence, example of third party nonviolent intervention, pantheism
Rene Girard and ritual sacrifice, unanimous violence, examples of Greek sacrifice rituals, Oedipus
Jewish law and scapegoating, Jesus and scapegoating, the Book of Matthew as a text of persecution
“Jesus of history” movement, what it can show us: the Jews did not kill Jesus, Jesus was an nv leader
Jesus freeing the individual from the religious hierarchy, the Ebionites, Christianity vs. the war system
Q&A: Jesus’s brother, Judas, accommodation phase of Christianity, diefication of Jesus, Walter Wink

Readings

Section III of the course reader:

  • Roots of Jewish Nonviolence in the Talmud by Reuven Kimelman
  • A selection from St. Augustine, The City of God
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Principles of Nonviolence, from Butigan et al., Franciscan Nonviolence