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ANT369 Religious Violence and Non-Violence

This guide gives students an overview of resources for completing their Major Assignment.

Hans Kung's Global Ethic and Experiential Projects

Scholarly and Peer-Reviewed Articles

Books by Kung and Others

Parliament of the World Religions

The 2021 Parliament of the World’s Religions will be the eighth convening and the first time that it will be hosted virtually.  Recognized as the birthplace of the modern interfaith movement, the 1893 Parliament made history with its groundbreaking interreligious dialogues among leaders of Eastern and Western religious traditions, fostering understanding, cooperation and social harmony. Since 1893, six more Parliaments have been hosted in the United States, South Africa, Spain, Canada and Australia; attended by tens of thousands of people from around the world.

Scholarly Articles

Charter for Compassion - Karen Armstrong

The Charter for Compassion is asking everyone who wants to co-create a world that is peaceful and kind, promotes happiness, and works for all life to invest in compassion. Invest in compassion with actions, time, and resources. Help the Charter realize this vision of a compassionate world that supports all life.

One of the key principles behind compassion is the Golden Rule.

Scholarly Articles

Indigenous Themes: The Widigo (Ojibway), Wiitiko (Cree), Bigfoot (English)

A windigo is a cannibalistic monster that preys on the weak and socially disconnected. It can represent psychosis or environmental destruction and greed. Ojibwe scholar Brady DeSanti asserts that the wendigo “can be understood as a marker indicating a person imbalanced both internally and toward the larger community of human and spiritual beings around them.”

Wendigos are an expression of a dark aspect of human nature: the drive toward greed, consumption, exclusion, and disregard for other life in the pursuit of self-aggrandizement.

Steve Pitt's reference article is eloquent about the modern symbolism of the term (my emphasis):

According to historian Shawn Smallman, the windigo is still seen as a symbol of greed in modern society, as manifested in capitalism and corporate consumerism.

The creature has also come to serve as a metaphor for the injustices that Indigenous peoples have faced in Canada, including residential schools, the restriction of rights in the Indian Act, the Sixties Scoop and similarly assimilative policies. Armand Ruffo’s film, A Windigo Tale (2010), for example, uses the monster to tell a story about the intergenerational trauma of residential schools. For some Indigenous persons, the windigo represents the forces of colonization.

Bibliography:

Pitt, Steve,  "Windigo".  In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published September 09, 2012; Last Edited March 08, 2018. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/windigo

An Artistic Impression of the Wendigo

image of a Wendigo

DracoLumina17. (19 October 2020. An Artistic Impression of the Wendigo. Licensed under the the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Retrieved from Wikimedia at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wendigo_Wintery_Forest.jpg

Scholarly Articles

Scholarly Books and Book Chapters

Colonialism, Restorative Justice, Indigenous Ways of Knowing

Primary Source Materials

A unique and powerful way to support your arguments is to use primary sources. These primary source collections may help you achieve this:

Books

Sources such as books, scholarly handbooks and book chapters will likely provide the majority of your sources. Here are some starting points:

Connecting Themes: Writing a Book for Children

Resources about Writing Children's Books

American Civil Rights Movement

Primary Source Materials

A unique and powerful way to support your arguments in your essay is to use primary sources. These primary source collections may help you achieve that goal:

Books

Sources such as books, scholarly handbooks and book chapters will likely provide the majority of your sources. Here are some starting points:

This book includes some primary source materials.

Background on Religion and Violence and Non-Violence

Books

Sources such as scholarly articles, books, and book chapters will likely provide the majority of your sources. Here are some starting points:

Gender-Based Violence

Primary Source Materials

A powerful way to support your research may be to use primary source documents. Try these collections:

Books

Sources such as books, scholarly handbooks and book chapters will likely provide the majority of your sources. Here are some starting points:

Violence and Non-Violence in Religious Scriptures and Traditions

Primary Source Materials

A unique and powerful way to support your arguments in your essay is to use primary sources. These primary source collections may help you achieve that goal:

Books

Sources such as books, scholarly handbooks and book chapters will likely provide the majority of your sources. Here are some starting points:

Moral Norms with Respect to Violence / Structural Violence

Books

Sources such as books, scholarly handbooks and book chapters will likely provide the majority of your sources. Here are some starting points: