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People's Peace lays a solid foundation for the argument that global
peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects.
Saikia and Haines offer a unique and imaginative perspective on
people's daily lives across the world as they struggle to create
peace despite escalating political violence. The volume's focus on
local and ordinary efforts highlights peace as a lived experience
that goes beyond national and international peace efforts. In
addition, the contributors' emphasis on the role of religion as a
catalyst for peace moves away from the usual depiction of religion
as a source of divisiveness and conflict. Spanning a range of
humanities disciplines, the essays in this volume provide case
studies of individuals defying authority or overcoming cultural
stigmas to create peaceful relations in their communities. From
investigating how ancient Jews established communal justice to
exploring how black and white citizens in Ferguson, Missouri, are
working to achieve racial harmony, the contributors find that
people are acting independently of governments and institutions to
identify everyday methods of coexisting with others. In putting
these various approaches in dialogue with each other, this volume
produces a theoretical intervention that shifts the study of peace
away from national and international organizations and institutions
toward locating successful peaceful efforts in the everyday lives
of individuals.
People's Peace lays a solid foundation for the argument that global
peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects.
Saikia and Haines offer a unique and imaginative perspective on
people's daily lives across the world as they struggle to create
peace despite escalating political violence. The volume's focus on
local and ordinary efforts highlights peace as a lived experience
that goes beyond national and international peace efforts. In
addition, the contributors' emphasis on the role of religion as a
catalyst for peace moves away from the usual depiction of religion
as a source of divisiveness and conflict. Spanning a range of
humanities disciplines, the essays in this volume provide case
studies of individuals defying authority or overcoming cultural
stigmas to create peaceful relations in their communities. From
investigating how ancient Jews established communal justice to
exploring how black and white citizens in Ferguson, Missouri, are
working to achieve racial harmony, the contributors find that
people are acting independently of governments and institutions to
identify everyday methods of coexisting with others. In putting
these various approaches in dialogue with each other, this volume
produces a theoretical intervention that shifts the study of peace
away from national and international organizations and institutions
toward locating successful peaceful efforts in the everyday lives
of individuals.
Religiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as
products of the conservative turn in Protestant and Catholic life
in the latter part of the twentieth century, with women's
mobilizations centering on defense of the "traditional" family. In
Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism, Amanda L. Izzo
argues that, contrary to this view, liberal wings of Christian
churches have remained an instrumental presence in U.S. and
transnational politics. Women have been at the forefront of such
efforts. Focusing on the histories of two highly influential
groups, the Young Women's Christian Association of the USA, an
interdenominational Protestant organization, and the Maryknoll
Sisters, a Roman Catholic religious order, Izzo offers new
perspectives on the contributions of these women to transnational
social movements, women's history, and religious studies, as she
traces the connections between turn-of-the-century Christian
women's reform culture and liberal and left-wing religious social
movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Izzo suggests that shared
ethical, theological, and institutional underpinnings can transcend
denominational divides, and that strategies for social change often
associated with secular feminism have ties to spiritually inspired
social movements.
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