The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding by R Scott Appleby

The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding by R Scott Appleby

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.

This Handbook in a masterful way introduces the past, present and future issues involved in religion, conflict and peacebuilding * Christoph Stenschke, University of South Africa, Journal of Early Christian History *
This handbook should be on the bookshelves of any scholar who works in the targeted fieldsThe bibliographic depth of the essays themselves would prove useful for further research. Combined with the strength of analysis of numerous essays, Omer, Little, and Appleby have provided us a resource worth returning to on a regular basis. * Irene Oh, Religious Studies Review *
Essential reading. * John Brewer, Times Higher Education *
[This] book broadens the concept of violence beyond direct physical violence to the structural and psychological. Included is an interesting discussion of secularism and whether it provides a neutral context for peacemaking or is an exclusivist world view that contributes to violence and Western cultural hegemony.n Recommended. * C. L. Kammer, CHOICE *

R. Scott Appleby is Professor of History and John M. Regan, Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. David Little is Professor Emeritus of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict and Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard Divinity School. Atalia Omer is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Program in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding, at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, at the University of Notre Dame.

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ISBN 13	9780199731640
ISBN 10	0199731640
Title	The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Author	R Scott Appleby
Series	Oxford Handbooks
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2015-04-02
Number of pages	736
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