State Intervention and Holy Violence
Timgad/Paleostrovsk/Waco
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8202261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B D Shaw (Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 853-894 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jaarel/lfp069 |
| OpenAlex | W2157652412 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 2 |
The following investigation considers three different historical cases that involved the siege of a dissident Christian community by the armed forces of the state. It is an exercise in comparative history. The incidents concerned are the siege of the Donatist basilica at Timgad in the year 419 by the forces of the late Roman state, the siege of dissident monasteries in seventeenth-century Muscovy in the year 1687–88 by forces of Romanov Muscovy, and the modern-day siege of the Branch Davidian site at Mount Carmel near Waco, TX, in 1993. These cases are investigated in order to delineate some of the common and diverging elements in the armed involvement of premodern and modern states in religious conflicts. The description and analysis is focused on the nature of the difference between premodern and modern states in their response to demands that they undertake coercive action against targeted religious groups. A particular concern of the paper is with the different ways in which structural salience—the jumping of violence from one level of the state to the next—happens, and how.
Ancient history · Intervention (counseling) · Mount · Political science · Salience (neuroscience) · Siege · Sociology · State (computer science) · Engineering · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.47 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |