The Oxford handbook of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding
By: edited by Atalia Omer, R. Scott Appleby, and David Little
Series: Oxford handbooks; Oxford handbooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9780199731640; 9780190217945
Subjects: Konfliktregelung; Peace; Peace-building; Violence; Conflict management; Handbooks, manuals; Religion; Krig; Konfliktlösning; War; Friedensbemühung; Fred; Religion and politics; Religiösa aspekter; Fredsbyggande; Politischer Konflikt; Religion och politik; Religious aspects
Other titles: Handbook of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding
Description: This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. Looking far beyond the traditional parameters of the field, the contributors engage deeply with the legacies of colonialism, missionary activism, secularism, orientalism, and liberalism as they relate to the discussion of religion, violence, and nonviolent transformation and resistance. Featuring numerous case studies from various contexts and traditions, the volume is organized thematically into five different parts. It begins with an up-to-date mapping of scholarship on religion and violence, and religion and peace. The second part explores the challenges related to developing secularist theories on peace and nationalism, broadening the discussion of violence to include an analysis of cultural and structural forms. In the third section, the chapters explore controversial topics such as religion and development, religious militancy, and the freedom of religion as a keystone of peacebuilding. The fourth part locates notions of peacebuilding in spiritual practice by focusing on constructive resources within various traditions, the transformative role of rituals, youth and interfaith activism in American university campuses, religion and solidarity activism, scriptural reasoning as a peacebuilding practice, and an extended reflection on the history and legacy of missionary peacebuilding. The volume concludes by looking to the future of peacebuilding scholarship and the possibilities for new growth and progress. Bringing together a diverse array of scholars, this innovative handbook grapples with the tension between theory and practice, cultural theory, and the legacy of the liberal peace paradigm, offering provocative, elastic, and context-specific insights for strategic peacebuilding processes.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Religious peacebuilding: the exotic, the good, and the theatrical  -- Atalia Omer; title: Religious violence: the strong, the weak, and the pathological  -- R. Scott Appleby; title: Religion, peace, and the origins of nationalism  -- David Little; title: Religion, nationalism, and the politics of secularism  -- Scott Hibbard; title: Secular-religious encounters as peacebuilding  -- Slavica Jakelić; title: Structural and cultural violence in religion and peacebuilding  -- Jason A. Springs; title: The new name for peace? Religion and development as partners in strategic peacebuilding  -- R. Scott Appleby; title: Violent and nonviolent religious militancy  -- Patrick Q. Mason; title: Religious violence and state violence  -- A. Rashied Omar; title: The comparative study of ethics and the project of the justpeace  -- John Kelsay; title: The place of religious freedom in the structure of peacebuilding  -- W. Cole Durham Jr. and Elizabeth A. Clark; title: Women, religion, and peacebuilding  -- Susan Hayward; title: Reconciliation, politics, and transitional justice  -- Daniel Philpott; title: Negotiating secular and religious contributions to social change and peacebuilding  -- Marc Gopin; title: Secular militancy as an obstacle to peacebuilding  -- Timothy Samuel Shah; title: Religion and peace in Asia  -- Tam Ngo, Dan Smyer Yu, and Peter van der Veer; title: Peacebuilding in the Muslim world  -- S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana; title: Youth and interfaith conflict transformation  -- Eboo Patel and Cassie Meyer; title: The possibilities and limits of inter-religious dialogue  -- Peter Ochs; title: Ritual, religion, and peacebuilding  -- Lisa Schirch; title: Spirituality and religious peacebuilding  -- John Paul Lederach; title: The intersection of Christian theology and peacebuilding  -- Heather M. DuBois and Janna Hunter-Bowman; title: Religious communities and possibilities for justpeace  -- Cecelia Lynch; title: Religion, nationalism, and solidarity activism  -- Atalia Omer; title: Religion, conflict, and peacebuilding: synthetic remarks -- Atalia Omer.