How might Christ respond to religious violence?

As religious violence continues to make headlines, it is tempting for both the media and its audience to lump devout worshipers into the same camp as violent extremists. It is also tempting for people of one faith to regard members of other religious groups as the ones most likely to commit heinous crimes in the name of religion.

Mark Juergensmeyer in his book Global Rebellion addresses the ideological motivators behind religious violence and demonstrates that no one religious organization has a monopoly on terroristic extremism. Juergensmeyer positions secularism and religious activism into two opposing categories of what he calls "ideologies of order.”

With the premise of seeing ideological rivalry between state and church in a Hegelian dialectic, he compares the similar ways major world religions tend to resist secular globalization. Specifically, he groups Western politics and economics into one category of secular nationalism. The antithesis, then, would be any religious movement that perceives its ideals to be attacked or oppressed by secularism.