This collection of essays deals with suicide and genocide from several aspects and points of view, including historical, sociological, psychological, therapeutic, educational, legal, philosophical, and theological. Some essays combine several approaches and thus the book as a whole offers an integral inter-disciplinary insight into the nature, origins, function, and connections of both phenomena. The book also outlines the ways and models for the prevention of suicide and genocide, and overcoming their effects and consequences. It will be useful for scholars in the fields of humanities and...

This book presents essays that deal with genocide, totalitarianism, and multiculturalism. It starts with a detailed analysis of the concept of genocide as social death, followed by a reflection of Nazism and Stalinism in the light of Kierkegaardian concepts of anxiety and stadia of existence. The book also discusses different conceptions of multiculturalism and points to the unacceptability of multiculturalism, understood as axiological leveling of all cultures. Finally, the book applies the concepts of the theory of citizenship to enlighten the Slovene story under communism and its...

The book deals with the relationship of religion, ideology, violence and peace. The authors discuss these topics and related phenomena-such as religious (in)tolerance, religious pluralism, political terror and post-secular culture from different aspects (education, marriage, culture of memory, business ethics)-in different concrete societal contexts, including Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Taiwan, and more. Against this background of different academic disciplines, philosophy, theology, science of religion, sociology, intellectual history, psychology, science of education and legal...

The question about the role of religion as a factor of overcoming violence and of fostering intercultural dialogue is among the key challenges of the postmodern world. The contributions in the book specifically focus on the interplay between the phenomena of religion, ideology, and violence. The topics addressed include: the question of origins of violence in secular modernity; radical Islamism and totalitarianism; the relationship between faith, humility, and a theological vision of peace; the relationship between metaphysics and violence; the anthropology of myth and violence; gender-based...