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Jul 23, 2010 · NS: So how does one address another’s cosmic claims? Some want to ignore them and focus on underlying political and economic conditions; others say these people cannot be reasoned with and must be answered with violence.
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Jan 7, 2013 · The term cosmic war can encompass and transcend the terms holy war and divine war, each of which connotes an earthly battle between rival religious groups spurred by political, territorial, economic, and missionary impulses, insofar as that means the eradication of the worship of one god and its replacement with another.
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Jan 30, 2000 · Economic development has been the most successful of all anti-poverty policies. It was not very long ago, as history is measured, when such things as oranges or cocoa were the luxuries of the rich and when it was considered an extravagance for the president of the United States to have a bathtub with running water installed in the White House.
Sep 2, 2009 · The relationship of violence and the sacred clouds the histories of every tradition and has fascinated some of the keenest theorists of religion. Visions of destruction are ubiquitous in religious symbols, mythology, and rituals, and the histories of most religions have left a trail of blood.
The myth of religious violence marks the “clash of civilizations” worldview that attributes Muslims’ animosity toward the West to their inability to learn the lessons of history and remove the baneful influence of religion from politics.
A “cosmic war” is an imagined battle between metaphysical forces—good and evil, right and wrong, order and chaos—that lies behind many cases of religion-related violence in the contemporary world.
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Feb 13, 2023 · In Mesoamerica, ongoing studies have enriched our understanding of social contexts of violence and warfare in Maya societies. This expanding body of field data allows deeper exploration of the ways violence was intricately linked to different aspects of cultural life for many Maya communities.