A response by social media participant had initiated some preliminary research gathering. The response was to a post I had put up:
“Both the culture and religion are in a strange, binary, process of synthesis—a tension, but often a conflated bringing-together of utopian pacificism and a technological drive for war-like aggression.”
Neville Buch (2021), Book Review: Arnaud Blin, War and Religion: Europe and the Mediterranean from the First through the Twenty-first Centuries, Journal for the Academic Study of Religion.
Arnaud Blin’s work examines the evolving relationship between war and religion over the centuries, particularly in the Mediterranean and Europe, asserting that this relationship has undergone significant transformation due to the political empowerment of religious institutions. The author’s thesis argues that while religion and war once coexisted independently, they now influence each other through the imposition of moral obligations that sometimes justify warfare. Blin offers a comprehensive exploration of these concepts, contributing valuable insights to the fields of conflict and peace studies.
https://www.academia.edu/109559308/Arnaud_Blin_War_and_Religion_Europe_and_the_Mediterranean_from_the_First_through_the_Twenty_first_Centuries
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The response was to compare/ contrast that with Karen Armstrong’s “Fields of Blood – Religion and the History of Violence”?
A reasonable request, but it is not, as we will see; but to initially to say, why is the “student” setting a “teacher” an assessment task?
Thus, I make this reply, not on the assigned task, but on its unknown intent:
To list the literature on religion, violence, culture, and civilising behaviour, looking at a selection from one database from 2023, back to 1991, we have 79 informative items:
- Lee, T. (2023). Sir Thomas More and the Tragedy of Citizenship. Studies in Philology, 120(3), 488–526. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27251564
- High, S. (2023). The Radical Origins of the Deindustrialization Thesis: From Dependency to Capital Flight and Community Abandonment. Labour / Le Travail, 91, 31–56. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27305195
- Iyer, S. (2022). Religion and Discrimination: A Review Essay of Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom. Journal of Economic Literature, 60(1), 256–278. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27183028
- Tinnes, J. (2021). Bibliography: Hostage Takings and Extrajudicial Executions (Part 1). Perspectives on Terrorism, 15(6), 104–159. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27090928
- Cornell, D., & Seely, S. D. (2021). Why Political? Why Spirituality? Why Now? The CLR James Journal, 27(1/2), 25–38. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27170780
- Krause, J. H. (2021). The Politics of Religion In Hume’s Treatise Of Human Nature. The Review of Metaphysics, 75(1 (297)), 23–56. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27068336
- Beutel, A. (2021). Popping the Bubble: Critically Analyzing the Refugee Crisis with Suburban Seventh Graders. The Radical Teacher, 120, 14–22. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48694872
- Beutel, A. (2021). Popping the Bubble: Critically Analyzing the Refugee Crisis with Suburban Seventh Graders. The Radical Teacher, 120, 14–22. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48694872
- Tinnes, J. (2021). Bibliography: Terrorism and the Media (including the Internet) (Part 5). Perspectives on Terrorism, 15(2), 179–239. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27007310
- Gibson, K., Millner, D., Thompson, C. P., & Nelson, A. (2021). White Supremacy in Oregon History: Mark O. Hatfield Lecture Series Post-Lecture Discussion. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 122(1), 60–77. https://doi.org/10.5403/oregonhistq.122.1.0060
- Gilmour, R. (2021). From Anxiety to Reverence: Fear of God’s Retribution and Violence in the Book of Samuel. Die Welt Des Orients, 51(1), 84–99. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27095051
- Marshall, A. (2021). “Treason and Loyalty go Hand in Hand”: Moral Politics and Radical Whiggery in Defoe’s Jure Divino (1706). Studies in Philology, 118(1), 145–180. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27082538
- Canty-Jones, E. E., Fang, J., Ogden, J., & Raman, S. (2020). Xenophobia in Oregon History: Mark O. Hatfield Lecture Series Post-Lecture Discussion. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 121(4), 436–451. https://doi.org/10.5403/oregonhistq.121.4.0436
- Tinnes, J. (2020). Bibliography: Defining and Conceptualizing Terrorism. Perspectives on Terrorism, 14(6), 204–236. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26964755
- Tinnes, J. (2020). Bibliography: Democracy and Terrorism. Perspectives on Terrorism, 14(5), 162–202. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26940065
- Tinnes, J. (2020). Bibliography: Women and Terrorism. Perspectives on Terrorism, 14(2), 155–201. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26910464
- Holden, W., & Nadeau, K. (2020). Rise of Inequality in the United States, after the ‘End of History’: Resounding Echoes of the Prophet Amos’s Cry for Justice and its Relevance Today (A Preliminary Reflection). Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society, 48(1/2), 1–20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27229992
- Tinnes, J. (2019). Bibliography: Terrorism Prevention. Perspectives on Terrorism, 13(6), 116–166. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26853765
- Singh, K., & Swarup, A. (2019). Progress and Peace: Enlightenment Now from Both Science and Religion. International Journal on World Peace, 36(4), 33–52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26885038
- Ritger, M. (2019). Reading Utopia in the Reformation of Punishment. Renaissance Quarterly, 72(4), 1225–1268. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26897301
- Tinnes, J. (2019). Bibliography: Genocide (since 1980) Part 2. Perspectives on Terrorism, 13(1), 163–196. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26590530
- Landy, F. (2019). Why I am Such a Good Christian: Comments on Gil Anidjar, Blood: A Critique of Christianity. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 31(3), 281–298. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26743843
- Landy, F. (2019). Introduction: Gil Anidjar, Blood: A Critique of Christianity. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 31(3), 239–243. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26743840
- Abozaid, A. M. (2018). “Clash of Civilizations” at Twenty-Five: Reappraising Huntington’s Legacy: View from the Arab World. Contemporary Arab Affairs, 11(4), 135–158. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48599809
- Carvalho, C. L. (2018). Drunkenness, Tattoos, and Dirty Underwear: Jeremiah as a Modern Masculine Metaphor. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 80(4), 597–618. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45456196
- Robert D. Priest. (2018). A Rabbi’s Impressions of the Oberammergau Passion Play: Joseph Krauskopf, Antisemitism, and the Limits of the Transnational Jewish Public Sphere. Jewish Social Studies, 24(1), 100–126. https://doi.org/10.2979/jewisocistud.24.1.04
- Tinnes, J. (2018). Bibliography: Terrorist Tactics and Strategies. Perspectives on Terrorism, 12(5), 78–120. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26515464
- Daston, L. (2018). Divided Souls: Justice Is Conflict, Stuart Hampshire. Social Research, 85(3), 573–583. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26549799
- Johnson, J. T. (2018). Religion and The Human Rights Idea. The Journal of Religious Ethics, 46(2), 379–398. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45217538
- Thiessen, M. (2018). Protecting the Holy Race and Holy Space: Judith’s Reenactment of the Slaughter of Shechem. Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period, 49(2), 165–188. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26551246
- Chong, A. (2017). Civilisations and harm: the politics of civilising processes between the West and the non-West. Review of International Studies, 43(4), 637–653. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26619181
- Dunne, T., & Devetak, R. (2017). Civilising statecraft: Andrew Linklater and comparative sociologies of states-systems. Review of International Studies, 43(4), 686–699. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26619184
- Tinnes, J. (2017). Bibliography: Root Causes of Terrorism. Perspectives on Terrorism, 11(4), 102–142. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26297900
- Mukherjee, N. (2017). Joseph Conrad and E. M. Forster in Search of a Transcultural Space. Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Poland), 12, 159–172. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26747382
- Quatrini, F. (2017). Jesus Nazarenus Legislator: Adam Boreel and the Rationality of Christian Religion against the “De Tribus Impostoribus.” Church History and Religious Culture, 97(1), 53–70. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26382242
- Davis, A. (2016). Story Without End: Perspective, Form, and Interpretation in John’s Apocalypse. Religion & Literature, 48(3), 71–90. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26571242
- Marian Eide. (2016). Modernist Violence [Review of At the Violet Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland, by Sarah Cole]. Journal of Modern Literature, 39(4), 176–179. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.39.4.12
- Viswanath, R. (2016). Economies of Offense: Hatred, Speech, and Violence in India. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 84(2), 352–363. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43900193
- Lambkin, B. (2015). The pre-1969 historiography of the Northern Ireland conflict: a reappraisal. Irish Historical Studies, 39(156), 659–681. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26425995
- Walsham, A. (2015). The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society, 1559-1625 (1982). History, 100(4 (342)), 544–558. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26624521
- Mizruchi, S. (2015). The School of Martyrdom: Culture and Class in “Catcher in The Rye.” Religion & Literature, 47(2), 23–40. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24752885
- Montesano, M. C. (2015). Preemptive Testimony: Literature as Witness to Genocide in Rwanda. African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, 5(1), 88–105. https://doi.org/10.2979/africonfpeacrevi.5.1.88
- Tinnes, J. (2015). Bibliography: Genocide (since 1980) Part 1. Perspectives on Terrorism, 9(2), 80–114. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26297363
- Doak, B. R. (2015). Monster Violence in The Book of Job. Journal of Religion and Violence, 3(2), 269–288. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26671464
- Frank, D. A. (2014). Facing Moloch: Barack Obama’s National Eulogies and Gun Violence. Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 17(4), 653–678. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.4.0653
- Cossen, W. S. (2014). Monk in the Middle: The “Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery” and the Making of Catholic Identity. American Catholic Studies, 125(1), 25–45. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44195668
- Benner, E. (2014). Machiavelli’s Ironies: The Language of Praise and Blame in The Prince. Social Research, 81(1), 61–84. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26549602
- Nickolas Pappas. (2014). Nietzsche’s Apollo. Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 45(1), 43–53. https://doi.org/10.5325/jnietstud.45.1.0043
- Megoran, N. (2013). Radical politics and the Apocalypse: activist readings of Revelation. Area, 45(2), 141–147. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24029864
- Junginger, H. (2013). Religion, Myth and Ideology. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 25(2), 161–167. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23555861
- Stroumsa, G. G. (2012). Robert Bellah on the origins of religion. A Critical Review. Revue de l’histoire Des Religions, 229(4), 467–477. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23618505
- Patrick, M. (2012). Letting In and Shutting Out: Themes in the Thought of C. S. Lewis. Journal of Inklings Studies, 2(2), 27–46. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45345248
- Jacobs, S. L. (2011). Genocidal Religion. Journal of Hate Studies, 9(1), 221–235. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48799709
- Wolloch, N. (2011). The Civilizing Process, Nature, and Stadial Theory. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 44(2), 245–259. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41057331
- Kellison, R. B. (2009). Connections, Confusions, Colonialism and the Construction of Religion: Making Sense of Fitzgerald’s “Discourse on Civility and Barbarity.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 21(3), 361–378. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23555717
- William (Bill) Metcalf. (2008). The Fall and Rise of an Antipodean Utopia: Brisbane, Australia. Utopian Studies, 19(2), 189–211. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20719899
- Geertz, A. W. (2008). How Not to Do the Cognitive Science of Religion Today. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 20(1), 7–21. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23551856
- Becker, F., & Geissler, P. W. (2007). Introduction: Searching for Pathways in a Landscape of Death: Religion and AIDS in East Africa. Journal of Religion in Africa, 37(1), 1–15. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27594401
- Merchant, C. (2006). The Scientific Revolution and The Death of Nature. Isis, 97(3), 513–533. https://doi.org/10.1086/508090
- Dittmer, J. (2005). Captain America’s Empire: Reflections on Identity, Popular Culture, and Post-9/11 Geopolitics. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 95(3), 626–643. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3693960
- McDowell, N. (2005). The stigmatizing of Puritans as Jews in Jacobean England: Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and the “Book of Sports” controversy. Renaissance Studies, 19(3), 348–363. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24416862
- Wuthnow, R. (2004). “The Religious Factor” Revisited. Sociological Theory, 22(2), 205–218. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3648942
- Bolks, S., & Stoll, R. (2003). Examining Conflict Escalation within The Civilizations Context. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 20(2), 85–109. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26273576
- Asani, A. S. (2003). “So That You May Know One Another”: A Muslim American Reflects on Pluralism and Islam. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 588, 40–51. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1049853
- De Gourdon, C. C. (2003). Rediscovering Ancient Bonds Between Civilisations. World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues, 7(2), 103–123. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48504810
- Stassen, G. H. (2003). It Is Time to Take Jesus Back: In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of H. Richard Niebuhr’s “Christ and Culture.” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 23(1), 133–143. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23561532
- Nau, H. R. (2001). Why “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” Was Wrong. Review of International Studies, 27(4), 579–592. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20097761
- Smith, L. V. (2001). Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory: Twenty-Five Years Later. History and Theory, 40(2), 241–260. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2678033
- Birner, J., & Ege, R. (1999). Two Views on Social Stability: An Unsettled Question. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 58(4), 749–780. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3488006
- Beed, C., & Beed, C. (1998). Peter Singer’s Interpretation of Christian Biblical Environmental Ethics. Worldviews, 2(1), 53–68. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43809104
- Gordon, W. M. (1997). Thomas More’s “Utopia”: Preface to Reformation. Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 21(3), 63–79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43445139
- Richards, J. W. (1997). Truth and Meaning in George Lindbeck’s “The Nature of Doctrine.” Religious Studies, 33(1), 33–53. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20008070
- Gomel, E. (1995). Mystery, Apocalypse and Utopia: The Case of the Ontological Detective Story. Science Fiction Studies, 22(3), 343–356. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4240456
- Bayly, S. (1993). History and the Fundamentalists: India after the Ayodhya Crisis. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 46(7), 7–26. https://doi.org/10.2307/3824640
- R. Krishna Iyer. (1992). India, Islam and the Pall of Postmodernism. Economic and Political Weekly, 27(45), 2417–2419. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4399095
- Narrett, E. (1992). Surviving History: Milan Kundera’s Quarrel with Modernism. Modern Language Studies, 22(4), 4–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/3194935
- Collins, R. J. (1992). Montaigne’s Rejection of Reason of State in “De l’Utile et de l’honneste.” The Sixteenth Century Journal, 23(1), 71–94. https://doi.org/10.2307/2542065
- Shulman, H. (1991). The Political and The Sacred: Political Obligation and The Book Of Deuteronomy. Jewish Political Studies Review, 3(3/4), 23–58. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25834212
- Polish, D. (1991). Rabbinic Views on Kingship — A Study in Jewish Sovereignty. Jewish Political Studies Review, 3(1/2), 67–90. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25834198
What is the point here? The point is why do under-educated social media participants lock-onto pop writers, like Karen Armstrong, and assume that local educated writers do not have something better to say. I had made a post on an important insight, and the response was to be taken to task over a pop writer.
Why does it matter? It matters because 1) I am not paid to undertake student assessment tasks; 2) I am the leading scholar on big belief and doubt in Queensland and 3) yet I am financially broke, and not had a paying contract or paying position since the end of 2017. My posts, academic and community publications, and blog articles and essays (i.e. https://drnevillebuch.com/news/) proves the point. On the academic and community publications, my record is sound and flourishing:
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
‘In the Publication Pipe Line’
[initiated co-joint written book with Dr Sam Hey] Liberal Evangelical Curriculum Textbook. Critical Thinking and other Cognition Histories and Sociology
[initiated with editor Dr Jim Page] A history of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Queensland)
[paper submitted] Donald Horne and Manning Clark Retrospect. Beyond Culture-History Warfare, Australian Studies Centre, Canberra, 13 November 2024.
[re-developing book manuscript] Working Title: ‘A Hidden Intellectual History of Queensland’, developing 2023-2024, last revised, 15 December 2023.
Scholarly Websites
(with Ryan Jones, Web Developer)
http://historyandphilosophyinqueensland.com/
http://mappingbrisbanehistory.com.au/
https://junctionparkhistory.com/
http://big-belief-problems.blogspot.com.au/
HIGHER EDUCATION INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
Higher Education Lesson Example (8:13:00)
2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology
https://www.facebook.com/neville.buch/videos/918968329880212/?idorvanity=601373408905942
https://www.facebook.com/events/601373408905942/
Neville Buch was live in Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology.
Books, Book Chapters, Monographs
Economic Rationalism and University Course Pricing 1989-2020, for Australian Policy and History, published online, August 3, 2020
Reports
Research Note: Anglo-American Major Belief-Doubt Systems. https://www.academia.edu/104984588/Research_Note_Anglo_American_Major_Belief_Doubt_Systems , 27 July 2023.
Other Manuscripts
[completed conference paper] The Socio-Political Landscapes of the New Sociology of Culture and Cognition: A Tour through the History of Education field (1970-2030). Australian Sociological Association, Perth, 25-27 November 2024.
Speeches and PowerPoint Presentations for Vice-Chancellors at the University of Melbourne (Professors Davis, Lee Dow, Gilbert) September 1998 to April 2008, and for Vice-Chancellor at Griffith University (Professor Webb) July 1997 to August 2008.
GLOBAL EDUCATION THEORIES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Books, Book Chapters, Monographs
Workshop Paper: Buckley in Australia: Considering Local Social Discourses among the Australian States (1938-1987). Conservative Public History Workshop, English, American Studies and Creative Writing, University of Manchester, 20 June 2024.
Wither Local History and the Status of Community Education & Research? What is Happening for 2023-2025 Brisbane-Queensland, Commemorations, Section: Bicentenaries, Centenaries, and Semicentenaries, The 50th anniversary of the Australian Historical Association (AHA), 4 July 2023.
David Mowaljarli’s Vision and Australian Ethical and Educative Culture 2000-2001, Australia and New Zealand History of Education (ANZHES), 7 December 2022.
Public and applied history in the community education ‘classroom’: The Brisbane Global Experience, Centre for Applied History (CAH) and Tertiary History Educators Association (THEA), Macquarie City Campus, Sydney, 24 June 2022.
No Regrets in the Evening of Life: The History of Junction Park State School (1888-2013). Boolarong Press, 2015 (pp. 459). (2)
Celebrating 40 Years. St Thomas More College, God’s Servant First (1974-2014). St Thomas More College, 2014 (pp. 123). (1)
Conference & Workshop Papers (not published and appears elsewhere in CV)
Politics in the Age of Uncertainty: Anti-intellectualism, Expertise, and the Technological Agenda in Queensland Politics, 1911-2011, a paper of local-regional relevance, 2021 Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, 21 September 2021.
Mapping Local Educated Society 1859-2009: Landscape and Culture in the Mapping Brisbane Education Project, Port Macquarie Campus, Charles Stuart University, 21 November 2019.
Other Manuscripts
[completed conference paper] John Carroll’s The Saviour Syndrome Thesis and the Thesis of the Level Playing Field, Australian Association for the Study of Religion, Canberra, 28-30 November 2024.
[completed conference paper] Rethinking School. Queensland Education 1971-1989, Australian Historical Association, Adelaide, 4 July 2024.
[completed, publisher being sorted] Book Manuscript: The Whole of Concept of Thought Community Education Curriculum. The Package-The Packet. The Whole Curriculum of the New York’s Free Thinker Institute and the Brisbane Meet-Up Intellectual Network (The Philosophy Café). Concepts in Community Education, last revised 20 February 2024.
[completed conference paper; article manuscript] American Educationalist Models in an Australian State 1942-2022, Australian and New Zealand Studies Association of North America, last revised January 2023.
[shelved work-in-Progress book] on the history of religious instruction, Christian education, and religious education in Queensland with Dr Elizabeth Nolan, last revised November 2022.
Hearts Lifted Up with the Spirit of Seton. A History of Seton College, Mount Gravatt East, Queensland, November 2017.
Speeches and PowerPoint Presentations for Vice-Chancellors at the University of Melbourne (Professors Davis, Lee Dow, Gilbert) September 1998 to April 2008, and for Vice-Chancellor at Griffith University (Professor Webb) July 1997 to August 2008.
So, the critical question is why am I not being paid for my work, and why are persons prejudicious towards me?
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