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The sociotheological turn and the study of religious violence in the Middle Ages and a case study: The Cistercian epistemic worldview and the violence against the heretics
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The sociotheological turn and the study of religious violence in the Middle Ages and a case study: The Cistercian epistemic worldview and the violence against the heretics Having as point of departure Ames' argument, that “In various ways, religious convictions could build foundations for repression in particular circumstances, and violence could play diverse roles within an economy of belief” (2005), the aim of this paper is to examine the interlink between the Cistercian epistemic worldview with the violent persecution of heretics, by focusing on the anti-heretical writings of the Cistercian monks in the second half of the twelfth century. Following the sociotheological approach, which studies “a group's internal epistemic worldview” and the external world, where the group operates (Juergensmeyer and Sheikh: 2013), I will analyze how the the internal Cistercian religious beliefs in relation to the external social structures led to the violent persecution of heretics |