title: Relative chronology of violent and nonviolent themes in early Christian and Islamic historical documents.
abstract: Early Islamic and Christian documents were divided into early and late periods chronologically and then compared to Morgan-Miller's 2002 themes of violence and nonviolence. No significant relationship between chronology and violence themes was found for the Christian documents but for the Islamic documents a significant relationship was detected, with later documents (those revealed at Madinah) reporting a higher percentage of violent and a lower percentage of nonviolent themes than those revealed earlier (at Mecca).
authors.affiliation: School of Family Studies and Human Services, Kansas State University, Justin Hall, 1700 Anderson Avenue, Manhattan, KS 66506-1403, USA. Schumm@humec.ksu.edu
authors.forename: Walter R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Schumm
mesh_terms: D002835:Christianity / Q000266:history*; D002910:Chronology as Topic; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D007514:Islam / Q000266:history*; D014754:Violence / Q000266:history*