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THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN THE CONTEXT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY
Shushan Khachatryan
Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI)
«Massacres of Christians in Turkey»,
Le Petit Journal, May 2, 1909.
Summary
The article deals with some interpretations of the phenomenon of genocide in terms of theology and religious studies. The article is an introductive description of the religious studies and theological research of genocides. The issues are classified under two main groups with its points: historical-religious and theological. The first group touches some questions of human massacres in the pagan religions, the stories about the slaughter of indigenous nations of Canaan reflected in the Old Testament, some issues on religious conversions and clashes of the religions that might lead to genocides (the principal pattern is Islam and Christianity).
The second group includes some aspects of theology of sacrifices, problem of evil and theodicy, a discussion of canonization of the victims of the Armenian Genocide and some questions of the Armenian national identity after the Genocide.
Full Armenian version find here:
http://issuu.com/agmi.am/docs/armenian_journal_n2-2/69?e=10837582/39195896/
JOURNAL OF GENOCIDE STUDIES, 2 (2), Yerevan, 2014.
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