religious violence
Faith-fueled bloodshed
Violence motivated by or justified through religious belief, typically directed at those of other faiths or denominations.
Religious violence ranges from individual hate crimes to organized persecution, holy wars, and genocide.
The term encompasses both violence explicitly commanded by religious doctrine and violence that uses religious identity as tribal justification: The Crusades represent centuries of religious violence, sectarian religious violence between Sunni and Shia communities.
Distinguished from violence that merely involves religious people by its doctrinal or identity-based motivation.
- pogromViolent persecution of minorities
- ethnic cleansingSystematic removal of populations
- holy warArmed conflict over faith
- sectarianismPrejudiced loyalty to subgroups
- sectarian conflictFighting between belief factions
desecration · deprogramming · jihad · iconoclasm · burning at the stake · inquisition · terrorism · suicide bombing · Thirty Years' War · Armenian Genocide · extremism · Crusades · blood libel · hate crime · fanaticism · auto-da-fé · intolerance · honor killing
- social issuesinequality, racism, poverty, illiteracy, homelessness
- religious criticismbiblical criticism, problem of evil, theodicy, contradictions, hypocrisy
- fanaticismfanaticism, zealotry, zealot, fanatic, extremism
- theologyecclesiology, eschatology, Christology, God, dogmatics
- violencephysical attack, brutality, aggression, bloodshed, bloodbath
- atheist argumentsproblem of evil, burden of proof, lack of evidence, unfalsifiability
religious violencereligious tolerance
Acceptance of differing faiths
interfaith dialogue · ecumenism · religious pluralism · religious fellowship · spiritual unity
religious violencepolitical violence
Force for political ends
ethnic conflict · economic warfare · tribal warfare · gang violence · class warfare
religious violencenonviolent resistance
Protest through peaceful means
missionary work · religious charity · humanitarian aid · religious service · conscientious objection
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