The publication deals with texts calling for violence and justifies this by religious arguments. It is however not always possible to distinguish, whether these arguments are motivated by religious convictions or whether they are later justifications. In most cases, they are intertwined. It will be taken into consideration, that calls for religious violence are not indisputable among members of the different religious communities. The contributions will also deal with criticisms of religious

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... lence. Obviously religious traditions do no lead by consequence to violence but are the result of different interpretations. With contributions by Arhan Kardaş, Norbert Franz, Rahel Gersch, Pierre Gottschlich, Johann Ev. Hafner, Hans-Michael Haußig, Marie-Luise Heckmann, Eckart Klein, Jakob Rösel, Kadir Sanci, Dirk Schuster