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The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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The book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of
the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. Extending
the scope of inquiry beyond previous parameters, the volume engages
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 diverse 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. In addition, this
section broadens the discussion of violence to include an analysis
of cultural and structural forms, thereby expanding the scope of
potential scholarship pertinent to the analysis of religion. The
third part engages with the controversies within religion and
development, religious-violent and nonviolent-militancy, religion
and the legitimate use of force, the protection of the freedom of
religion as a keystone of peacebuilding, and theories about gender
and peacebuilding. The fourth part highlights peacebuilding in
practice by focusing on constructive resources within various
traditions, the transformative role of rituals, spiritual practices
involved in the formation of peace-builders in contexts of acute
violence, 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 conclusion looks 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.
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