Religions and world peace
Subtitle: religious capacities for conflict resolution and peacebuilding
By: Roland Czada, Thomas Held, Markus Weingardt
Edition: 1. Auflage.
Series: Religion - Konflikt - Frieden -- Band 5; Religion, Konflikt, Frieden -- Bd. 5.
Publisher: Nomos
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baden-Baden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9783832967055
Subjects: Peace; Congresses; Peace-building; Conflict management
Other titles: Religious capacities for conflict resolution and peacebuilding
Notes: "Compilation of key contributions to the international symposium 'Religions and World Peace: Religious Communities and their Potential for Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution,' held in Osnabrück 20-23 October 2010"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A joint vision for world peace? Religions as driving forces for a culture of peace  -- Hans Küng; title: Religion, nationalism, and conflict: an update  -- David Little; title: Peacebuilding in the field: religious approaches, best practice and constraints  -- Jeffrey Haynes; title: Politics and religious diversity  -- Claus Leggewie; title: Resources for peacebuilding in the Jewish political tradition  -- Ben Mollov; title: Peace and violence in Buddhism: perspectives from theology and religious studies  -- Peter Harvey; title: Peace and violence in Islam  -- S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana; title: Managing violence and promoting nonviolence: the emerging agenda of Christian peacebuilding  -- Scott Appleby; title: Peace and violence in Hinduism: Gandhi, beacon of peace  -- Joseph Prabhu; title: Peacebuilding and religious constitutional laws  -- Gerhard Robbers; title: A mixed blessing: religion, violence and peace in Sub-Saharan Africa  -- Matthias Basedau, Georg Strüver, and Johannes Vüllers; title: War on earth and peace from heaven: preventing religions from instrumentalisation  -- Andreas Hasenclever; title: Religions, peace and human rights / Javaid Rehman --; title: Reconciliation as religious worship -- Daniel Philpott.