TY - T1 - The concepts of jihad in academic discussion and Muslim scholarship SN - / UR - URN:NBN:fi:hulib-201811083513; http://hdl.handle.net/10138/270333 T3 - A1 - Shah, Syed Waqar Ali A2 - PB - Helsingin yliopisto Y1 - 2018 LA - eng AB - Some claim religion kills while others say people kill for all sort of things. In fact, the link between religion and violence is a much-debated academic topic. William T. Cavanaugh (2009) has challenged what he called the “conventional wisdom” about religious violence by pinpointing several important “blind spots.” His discussion of the usefulness of the construct of religious violence for its consumers in the West is fundamental to this study. Cavanaugh concludes that the “myth of religious vi... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - jihad; notion of abodes; abode of Islam; abode of War; Islam and West; Extremism; Terrorism; War on Terror; Religion, Conflict and Dialogue; Religion, Conflict and Dialogue; Religion, Conflict and Dialogue N1 - PP - ER -