Philippe Buc is publishing a new book in 2015 on holy war, martyrdom and terror
WHILE WE ARE WAITING:
In 2015 Philippe Buck, professor at the University of Vienna, will be publishing a new book with the title: Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror: Christianity, Violence and the West, ca. 70 C.E. to the Iraq War (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). Interested may get a first glimpse of this book and its Longue Durée perspective in a paper from 2007: Some thoughts on the Christian Theology of Violence, medieval and modern, from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution.
We need this long historical perspective right now with ISIS raising the banner of the Caliphate and the spectre of the Mahdi in the Middle East and Putin waging war in Ukraine on behalf of Holy Mother Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church. Please speed the publication up…
Afficionados of Phillippe Buc will know him from his magisterial book on “The Dangers of Ritual: Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory.” (University of Pennsylvania press 2009)
Cannot wait? There is a possibility this autumn of listening to Philippe Buc lecturing
- in USA at Harvard 15.09.2014 on The Logic of Exegesis and the Logic of Violence: Medieval Exegesis and More Modern Holy Warfare
- in Europe at the University of Utrecht 09.10.2014: Theology and the shaping of violence in the West
