Body Count: A Quantitative Review of Political Violence Across World Civilizations
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"In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), the Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington reinvented Arnold Toynbee’s understanding of history as driven not only by impersonal material structures—territory capital, population, and natural resources—but equally by interpersonal ideational structures. This perception seemed supported by empirical observation, and soon filled the intellectual and political lacunae which had attained particular salience in the wake of the implosion of Soviet-backed communism."--Body Count (2009) by Naveed S. Sheikh "Interpreting the results: Our findings show that, using the entire data set for the period 0-2008, politically and religiously motfivated violence has cost between 449.38 million and 708.61 million lives. The Christian civilization’s share of this is the largest with between 119.32 million and 236.56 million victims (median 177.94 million). In second place is the Antitheist civilization which has contributed with a median figure of 125.29 million deaths. The Sinic civilization is third with 107.92 million deaths (median). Fourth is the Buddhist civilization with ca. 87.95 million deaths. Fifth is the Primal-Indigenous civilization with 45.56 million deaths. Sixth is the Islamic civilization with 31.94 million deaths. Finally, seventh and last, is the Indie civilization with just under 2.39 million deaths."--Body Count (2009) by Naveed S. Sheikh "In the period 0-800, ethno-tribal belief systems, here known as Primal-Indigenous religions, were the chief socio-religion dispensation among humankind. As the Christianization of Europe merged with the Islamization of the Middle East and North Africa, the Primal-Indigenous dominance was weakened."--Body Count (2009) by Naveed S. Sheikh |
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Body Count: A Quantitative Review of Political Violence Across World Civilizations (2009) is a book by Naveed S. Sheikh which compares the relationship between violence and religion in six different belief systems: Christian, Antitheist, Sinic, Buddhist, Primal-Indigenous and Islamic.
The study is a reaction to Clash of Civilizations (1996) by Samuel Huntington, which contended that “Islam has bloody borders” and that "intercivilizational conflict[s] had been [...] particularly prevalent between Muslims and non-Muslims".
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