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Psychology of Religion, Violence, and Conflict Resolution (Hardcover)
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Psychology of Religion, Violence, and Conflict Resolution (Hardcover)
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Psychology of religion, violence, and conflict resolution
highlights the causes of intrareligious and interreligious
violence, and proposes dual models for understanding the latter,
for facilitating moral regeneration, universal peaceful
coexistence, and holistic individual and collective flourishing.
Religious violence, especially and paradoxically perpetrated by
persons identifying with specific religious movements, has made
religion an enigma, with a progressively controversial status. In
other words, intrareligious and interreligious violence is
associated with some of the bloodiest episodes of humankind's
tragic history, and it is on this basis that understanding the
fundamental causes of religious strife becomes a vital
preoccupation of researchers, decision makers and the general
public, beyond and above religious obeisance, or total absence of
any. Furthermore, and more preoccupying, there is no space, time,
or people of the world today, that are free of the modern day
scourge of religious violence. Humankind all over the earth finds
itself having to confront this modern day gorgon, which is
faceless, non-discriminatory, and brutally ruthless, a far cry from
the myth and deontology of religion as the "link between humankind
and a higher source of being and goodwill." Psychology of religion,
violence, and conflict resolution unveils the psychological
mind-set lurking in the bloody shadows of intrareligious and
interreligious violence, activated through the prisms of
exclusivism, sectarianism, fundamentalism, intolerance, extremism,
hate speech, virulent condemnation of heresy, all culminating in
self-righteous "murders in God's Name." The work is not fatalistic
and pessimistic though because it highlights the possibility of
individual and collective moral regeneration via the Greater and
Lesser Jihad, or self-sacrifice and selfless service, grounded in
the realization of the inalienable unity of being, for the
preservation and unlimited flourishing of all creation. The climax
of the work is the projection of a non-mythical but highly probable
and limitlessly sustainable "golden age," to be actualized when the
preconditions of goodwill, peaceful coexistence, mental
illumination, and selfless service become cornerstones of a
holistic, universalistic, communalistic, and humanistic ethic of
being, knowing, and doing. The book represents a unique and most
timely contribution to research and literature on religion,
violence, and conflict resolution, and is intended to become a
vital resource and reference material for students, researchers,
professionals, national and international decision makers,
non-governmental organizations, religious and non-denominational
bodies, which advocate for intrareligious and interreligious
dialogue, reconciliation, peaceful coexistence, and individual and
collective flourishing.
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