Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 11:34:56 +0530
From: Nathaniel Roberts <npr4-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [BOU:] Publications on War, Genocide and Terrorism


Is this a theology list or a Bourdieu list?


At 10:35 PM 3/4/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>             The LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE is pleased to announce the
>addition of two papers to its Website collection of STUDIES ON THE
>PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR, GENOCIDE AND TERRORISM.
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>"Violence and the Sacred-Revisited," Part I, by Ramon Lopez-Reyes, Ph. D.
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>http://home.earthlink.net/~libraryofsocialscience/Papers/rl-violence1.htm
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>Excerpt:
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>"But why does God, at least a patriarchal deity, require a blood sacrifice?
>The answer lays hidden in Yahweh's "covenant with creation." He not only
>promises Noah "never again to destroy every living thing as I have done" but
>He also gives to humans all the beasts of the earth, every bird of the air
>and all the fish of the sea. "Every moving thing that lives shall be food
>for you. I have given you all things, even the green herbs."
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>             In return for not destroying humanity and for the gift of
>creatures, Yahweh demands an onerous reckoning: a lifeblood reckoning. If
>God is a giver, He is also a deadly reaper. In brief, the lifeblood offering
>flows from human fear of God's power and belief that His rage can be
>deterred only by the precious offer of holy lifeblood. The covenant operates
>under the maxim: blood stays God's wrath and human prosperity flourishes."
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>"The Logic of the Holocaust: Why the Nazis Killed the Jews," by Richard A.
>Koenigsberg, Ph. D.
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>http://home.earthlink.net/~libraryofsocialscience/id22.html
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>Excerpt:
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>"Nazism, then, revolved around the idea that Germany was an actual body
>whose life was endangered by the presence of foreign cells within its
>bloodstream. The Final Solution represented a systematic effort to remove
>these alien cells from within the body politic, thereby destroying the
>source of the nation's disease and saving its life.
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>             This was the central fantasy contained within Hitler's ideology:
>That Germany was an actual organism containing Jewish bacteria and viruses
>whose removal was necessary if the nation was to survive. However, what is
>the meaning of this extraordinary idea? Nations are not bodies and Jews are
>not bacteria. Why did these metaphors resonate with the German people? Let
>us approach this question by viewing Nazism as a religion."
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>             We welcome comments and discussions of the essays on the LIBRARY
>OF SOCIAL SCIENCE website.
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>             We are expanding the essay section of the website, and INVITE
>CONTRIBUTIONS of 1,000 to 3,000 words in length on the psychology of war,
>genocide, and terrorism.
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>             Please send your ideas or proposals to Jay H. Bernstein, Ph.D.,
>at LibraryofSocialScience-AT-earthlink.net
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>With regards,
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>Jay Bernstein
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>Richard A. Koenigsberg, Ph. D., Director
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>Telephone: 1-718-393-1081
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>Jay H. Bernstein, Ph.D., Executive Director. Telephone: 1-718-393-1104
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>Website for THE KOENIGSBERG LECTURES ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CULTURE AND
>HISTORY http://www.conflictaslesson.com/why_main.html
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