Beschreibung:
Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding result in a creative process that has the potential to achieve a more detailed view of peace on earth, containing breadth as well as depth.
Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding result in a creative process that has the potential to achieve a more detailed view of peace on earth, containing breadth as well as depth.
Library and bookstore shelves are filled with critiques of the negative impacts of religion in conflict scenarios. Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies offers an alternate view that suggests religious organizations play a more complex role in conflict than a simply negative one. Faith-based organizations, and their workers, are often found on the frontlines of conflict throughout the world, conducting conflict management and resolution activities as well as advancing peacebuilding initiatives.
Chapter One: Can People of Faith, and People in Peace and Conflict Studies, Work Together?
Thomas Matyók and Maureen Flaherty
Part I: Peace and Conflict Studies in a Contextualized Place
Chapter Two: Religion, Peace and Violence: Tensions and Promises
David Creamer and Christopher Hrynkow
Chapter Three: Ahimsa: A World without Violence?
Klaus Klostermaier
Chapter FourBlessing-Based Love (Agape) As a Heuristic to Understanding Effective Reconciliation Practices: A Reading of I Corinthians 13 In a Peacebuilding Context
Vern Neufeld Redekop
Part II: Religions and Peace and Conflict Studies
Chapter Five: Catholic Peacemaking: A History and Analysis with Special Emphasis on the Work of the Community of Sant ’Egidio
John Perry
Chapter Six: Evangelical Women and Transformative Peacebuilding
Kristen Lundquist, Hien Vu, and Chris Seiple
Chapter Seven: Judaism and the Path to Peace
Michael Lerner
Chapter Eight: Islam and Peace and Conflict Studies
Nathan Funk
Chapter Nine: The Role of Indigenous African Religion in Peacemaking
Hamdesa Tuso
Chapter Ten: Aboriginal Peoples’ in Canada and the Role of Religion in Conflict: The Ever Elusive Peace
Paul Nicolas Cormier
Chapter Eleven: Mennonite International Peacebuilding and Local Ownership
Chuck Thiessen
Chapter Twelve: Let Us See What Love Can Do: Quaker Contributions to Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Vernie Davis
Chapter Thirteen: Haïtian Vodou: Peace Begins Within
Margret Mitchell Armand
Chapter Fourteen: Eastern Orthodox Christianity: Provocations and Challenges for a Just Peace in an Era of Conflict and Global Transition
Harry Anastasiou
Chapter Fifteen: Ancient News from Buddha’s Research Lab: the Role of Buddhism in Peace and Conflict Settings
Katharina Bitzker
Chapter Sixteen: Hinduism: War, Peace, and Peace and Conflict Studies
S. I. Keethaponcalan
Chapter Seventeen: Daoist Harmony as a Chinese Worldview
Yueh-Ting Lee, Honggang Yang, and Min Wang
Chapter Eighteen: Humanity’s Coming of Age: A Bahá’í View of the Process toward World Peace
Charles Egerton
Chapter Nineteen: Religious Leader Engagement: Military Chaplains Engaging Indigenous Religious Leaders and Their Communities in Operations (Voices from the International Chaplaincy Community)
S. K. Moore
Part III: The Way Forward: Four Faith Models
Chapter Twenty: Striving for Justice and Peace on Earth, Catholic Peace Initiatives
Ismael Muvingi
Chapter Twenty-One: Peacebuilding Principles and Values in Islam: Beyond the Basic Framework
Mohammed Abu-Nimer
Chapter Twenty-Two:Peace on Earth: The Anabaptist-Mennonite Perspective
Lois Edmund
Chapter Twenty-Three: Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam: the ‘Oasis of Peace’
Deanna Armbruster
Chapter Twenty-Four:Conclusions: Peace on Earth Revisited
Hamdesa Tuso, Jessica Senehi, and Sean Byrne