Miroslav Volf — Religion and Violence

On Being with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 4 August 2005

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Religious extremism drives some of the most intractable conflicts around the world. Our guest knows this shadow side of the Christian faith in his personal history. We’ll speak about what goes wrong when religion turns violent, and why, he believes, the cure for religious zealotry is not less religion but more religion — or rather stronger and more intelligent practices of faith.

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0:00.0	I'm Krista Tippett.
0:05.6	Today we'll probe the connection between religion and violence.
0:10.0	My guest, Miris Lovevulf, is a Croatian-born theologian.
0:14.1	He has experienced bloodshed that justified itself in Christian terms, and he's spent
0:19.2	his life as a scholar and activist trying to understand that.
0:23.7	We'll speak this hour about the power of religion to fuel violence and to overcome it.
0:29.5	When things go wrong with religion, it's religiosity reduced to a formula.
0:35.6	It's religiosity reduced to a simple symbolic gesture.
0:40.2	So you believe in one God that God is powerful and God is for you.
0:45.1	This is Speaking of Faith.
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1:21.9	I'm Krista Tippett.
1:24.0	Religious extremism is driving some of the most intractable conflicts around the world.
1:29.4	My guest today, Marislaw Wolf, knows this shadow side of the Christian faith in his personal
1:35.0	history.
1:36.4	We'll speak this hour about what goes wrong when religion turns violent.
1:41.4	Wolf believes that the cure is not less religion, but more religion, or rather stronger and
1:47.2	more intelligent practices of faith.
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