Constructing the kaleidoscope : introducing violence and justice--a womanist reading -- Contemplating the mimetic product of violence : the scapegoat -- Contracting mechanistic muscles : war and colonialism -- Cheating, defaming, and abusing Eve : sexism, seduction, gender, and domestic violence -- Conjugating elitism : classism and caste-ism -- Corrupting the rainbow : racism personified -- Choosing hypocrisy, betrayal, and mis-education : our complicity in violence -- Changing creation : a prolegomena to a theology and ethics of violence