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• Violence -- Moral and religious aspects

• Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida (originally published 2002; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Hent de Vries (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Nonviolence in Hawaii's Spiritual Traditions (1991), ed. by Glenn D. Paige and Sarah Gilliatt (PDF files at globalnonviolence.org)

• Violence and Disruption in Society: A Study of the Early Buddhist Texts, by Elizabeth J. Harris (HTML at Access to Insight)

• Vox Populi: Popular Opinion and Violence in the Religious Controversies of the Fifth Century A.D. (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Timothy E. Gregory
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• The Theology of Christian Resistance: A Symposium (Tyler, TX: Geneva Divinity School Press, 1983), ed. by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• "The Kingdom of God is Within You": Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Constance Garnett (Gutenberg text)

• Beyond Violence: Religious Sources of Social Transformation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004), ed. by James Heft (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Islam and Nonviolence (1993), ed. by Glenn D. Paige, Chaiwat Satha-Anand, and Sarah Gilliatt (PDF files at globalnonviolence.org)
• Muslims: Why the Violence? (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v2; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2004), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)
• Murder in the Name of Allah, by Mirza Tahir Ahmad (HTML at alislam.org)

• Investigator's Guide to Allegations of "Ritual" Child Abuse (1992), by Kenneth V. Lanning (PDF with commentary at ncjrs.goc)

• Trespassing for Dear Life: What is Operation Rescue Up To? (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press, c1989), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• When Justice is Aborted: Biblical Standards for Non-Violent Resistance (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1989), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Lone Gunners for Jesus: Letters to Paul J. Hill (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1994), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2020), ed. by Sara Polak and Daniel Trottier (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact and Propaganda (from the 1973 edition, with a followup on its suppression), by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, contrib. by Richard A. Falk (HTML with commentary at chomsky.info)
• La Violence en Droit Criminel Romain (in French; Paris: Librairie Plon, 1915), by Jean Coroï (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Algeria: Civilian Population Caught in a Spiral of Violence (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF files at amnesty.org)

• Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004), ed. by Jo-Marie Burt and Philip Mauceri (page images at Pitt)

• Brazil, Corumbiara and Eldorado de Carajás: Rural Violence, Police Brutality and Impunity (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Brazil, Corumbiara and Eldorado de Carajás: Rural Violence, Police Brutality and Impunity (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), ed. by Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• Violent Conflict in the 21st Century: Causes, Instruments, and Mitigation (1999), ed. by Charles F. Hermann, Harold K. Jacobson, and Anne Simon Moffat (PDF at amacad.org)

• Social Movements, Violence, and Change: The May Movement in Curaçao (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1975), by William A. Anderson and Russell R. Dynes (PDF at Ohio State)

• From Madness to Hope: The 12-Year War in El Salvador: Report of the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador (1993), by United Nations Commission on the Truth (HTML at derechos.org)

• Mr. Tasker's Gods (originally published 1925; reprinted 1972), by Theodore Francis Powys (multiple formats at Faded Page)

• Kenya, Violations of Human Rights: Communications Between Amnesty International and the Government of Kenya (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Systemic Injustice: Torture, "Disappearance," and Extrajudicial Execution in Mexico, by Joel Solomon (HTML at hrw.org)

• Toward a Theory of Peace: The Role of Moral Beliefs (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2020), by Randall Forsberg, ed. by Matthew Evangelista and Neta Crawford (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Anarchism and Violence, by L. S. Bevington (HTML at Indiana)

• Human Remains and Violence (full serial archives)

• Rwanda: Ending the Silence (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Civil Society, Conflict and Violence: Insights from the CIVICUS Civil Society Index Project (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), ed. by Regina List and Wolfgang Dörner (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)

• Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth-Century Headhunting Ritual (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Kenneth M. George (HTML at UC Press)

• Understanding and Preventing Violence (4 volumes; Washington: National Academy Press, 1993-1994), ed. by Albert J. Reiss and Jeffrey A. Roth
  • Volume 1: page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume 2 (Biobehavioral Influences): page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume 3 (Social Influences): page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume 4 (Consequences and Control): page images with commentary at NAP
• The Politics of Protest (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States Task Force on Demonstrations, Protests, and Group Violence, contrib. by Jerome H. Skolnick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Skinheads: Who They Are and What to Do When They Come to Town (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 1990), by Kenneth S. Stern (PDF at ajcarchives.org)
• Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review (2004), by National Research Council Committee to Improve Research Information and Data on Firearms, ed. by Charles F. Wellford, John Pepper, and Carol Petrie (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Dying to Entertain: Violence on Prime Time Broadcast Television, 1998 to 2006 (Alexandria, VA, and Los Angeles: Parents Television Council, 2007), by Caroline Schulenberg (PDF at parentstv.org)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Community Members Can Do (2014), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Rescue Workers Can Do (2014), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Parents Can Do (2013), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (multiple formats with commentary at NIH)
• The Emotional Life of Nations, by Lloyd DeMause (HTML at psychohistory.com)
• Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, by Graça Machel (HTML with commentary at UNICEF)

• Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era (New York and London: New York University Press, c2011), by Amory Starr, Luis A. Fernandez, and Christian Scholl (PDF and EPub with commentary at OAPEN)

• Transnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century (Bielefield: Transcript Verlag, 2016), by Markus Nehl (PDF at oapen.org)
• Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Sharon Stockton (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006), by Debarati Sanyal (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, c2005), by Lisa A. Surridge (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

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