Date of Award
6-12-2006
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Religious Studies
First Advisor
Timothy Renick - Chair
Second Advisor
Kathryn McClymond
Third Advisor
Jonathan Herman
Abstract
Religious Studies is making possible a scholarly study of many aspects of human religious traditions and practices, but the field has yet to articulate fully the ability of such study to affect the creation of new approaches to intractable social and political problems. Many of these problems have as their basis religious justifications, yet the rigor of academic thought has only barely begun to clarify the underlying religious reasoning. Through this essay I intend to provide clarity to some of the underlying religious justifications for war and violence by examining the religious writings of two widely recognized theologians that firmly oppose war and violence, John Howard Yoder and Mohandas Gandhi. The result is an examination on the utility of using religious ideas as sources of insights and strategies for addressing social and political issues such as war and violence.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1062064
Recommended Citation
Keeter, Gregory T., "Can Religion Help? Using John Howard Yoder and Mohandas Gandhi to Conceptualize New Approaches to Intractable Social and Political Problems such as Violence and War." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2006.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1062064