Religion and Social Responses to Violent Acts: Crime and Punishment in Five Different Religions.
This paper investigates five specific religious texts and present the views found therein concerning violence and punishment. The five texts that are used are the Holy Bible (Christianity), the Dhammapada (Buddhism), the Koran (Islam), the Bhagavad- Gita (Hinduism), and the Torah (Judaism). The findings from these texts are then applied to the social practices concerning crime and punishment in the societies that most heavily rely on these religions. Through comparing and contrasting the teachings in these texts against social practices it is shown that there are correlations between religion and social practices
