Overview

This book brings together a variety of perspectives on how religion can be related to violence and war - both in a destructive and constructive way. Religion can justify and mobilize violence - even terrorism or guerilla wars - just like political ideology. But how is such a link between religion and violent behavior established in the first place? How can we go further in understanding this possible connection between religion and war? Is religious peace work just the flip side of religious support of war? Or can peace work be informed by knowing about how religion promotes violence and war? In the search for answers to the puzzle of religion and war, it is easy to focus on conflict and war situations, but maybe there is as much to learn from peace work as from war studies? Therefore, this book also analyses religious peace work from different contexts. The multifaceted presence of religion in conflict situations - whether justifying violence or promoting peace - is illustrated in this book using a variety of situations, in an enlightening panorama of one of today's must puzzling social connections: religion and armed conflict.

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Author:   Kjell-Åke Nordquist ,  Kjell-Ake Nordquist
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint:   Lutterworth Press
Edition:   1st Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.269kg
ISBN:  

9780718893163

ISBN 10:   0718893166
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   27 June 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Contributors Preface 1 Religion, Fundamentalism, and Conflict - R. Scott Appleby 2 Religion in the Global Jihadi War - Mark Juergensmeyer 3 Apocalyptic Speculations and the War of Armageddon - Göran Gunner 4 ""It Was the Work of Satan"": Perpetrators Rationalize the Atrocities of the Rwanda Genocide - Anne N. Kubai 5 In Search of Grace: Religion and the ELN - Jennifer Schirmer 6 Religion, Conflict, and Peace-Building: The Case of Sri Lanka - Mariyahl Hoole, Nari Senanayake, and Jehan Perera 7 ""Peacemakers"" from the ""Bridge Church"": The Anglican Church as A Third Party in Palestine 1920-1948 - Maria Småberg 8 Linking War and Religion: Some Observations - Kjell-Åke Nordquist"

Reviews

- this is a pertinent, timely and short book on a crucial contemporary issue. Peter Brain, Reform Magazine, October 2013

"'this is a pertinent, timely and short book on a crucial contemporary issue.' Peter Brain, Reform Magazine, October 2013 ""It will be useful for students, and also given the range of coverage will surely provide information that even specialists in the field will not know about concerning areas, periods, or conflicts that are not their focus."" -Paul Hedges, Theological Book Review, Vol. 26 No. 2, 2016"

'this is a pertinent, timely and short book on a crucial contemporary issue.' Peter Brain, Reform Magazine, October 2013

Author Information

R. Scott Appleby - Professor of History and John M. Regan Jr. Director, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA Göran Gunner - Researcher at Church of Sweden Research Unit, Associate Professor in Christianity and Interreligious Studies, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Mariyahl Hoole - Research Associate, National Peace Council, Colombo, Sri Lanka Mark Juergensmeyer - Professor of Sociology and Director of The Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA Anne N. Kubai - Associate Professor and Researcher at the Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Kjell-Åke Nordquist - Visiting Professor, Stockholm School of Theology, Stockholm, Sweden and Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Jehan Perera - Doctor of Law, Executive Director, National Peace Council, Colombo, Sri Lanka Jennifer Schirmer - PhD, Research Professor and Projects Director, Conflict Analysis & Peace Dialogues, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Nari Senanayake - Research Associate, National Peace Council, Colombo, Sri Lanka Maria Småberg - PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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