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Peace in Zanzibar: Proceedings of the Joint Committee of Religious Leaders in Zanzibar, 2005-2013 brings a multiperspective analytic lens to the Joint Committee of Religious Leaders for Peace (JVD), a unique Christian-Muslim peace initiative in Zanzibar. Drawing on eight years of experience working as a missionary with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania and serving as a member of the JVD itself, in addition to formal fieldwork, Arngeir Langås asks whether Christian-Muslim cooperation can contribute to peace on the East African islands and, if so, how. Situated in the academic field of missiology and taking abductive reasoning as its primary research method, Peace in Zanzibar demonstrates numerous areas of academic interest that can be addressed through studies of interreligious practice, including identity, syncretism and popular religion, the politicization of religion and the religionization of politics, and state-religion models. This book will find a broad and receptive audience among students, interreligious dialogue practitioners, missionaries, theologians, and missiologists.
List of contents
List of Tables - Foreword - Preface - Acknowledgments - List of Abbreviations - Glossary - Notes to the Reader - Introduction - Method and Material - Part One: The Historical Development in Zanzibar 1612-2013 - A Historical Introduction to Christian-Muslim Relations in Zanzibar - The Joint Committee of Religious Leaders for Peace in Zanzibar: The Journey, 2005-2013 - Part Two: Key Theological Issues at Stake - Religious Identity - Religion and Politics - Conclusion: Diapraxis as the way forward - Appendices - Primary Sources - Bibliography - Index.
About the author
Reverend Arngeir Langås received his MA in theology from MF Norwegian School of Theology (Oslo, Norway) and completed his PhD in missiology at VID Specialized University (Stavanger, Norway). He currently works as a consultant for church development and dialogue with Danmission in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Summary
Peace in Zanzibar brings a multiperspective analytic lens to the Joint Committee of Religious Leaders for Peace (JVD), a unique Christian-Muslim peace initiative in Zanzibar, as it investigates whether Christian-Muslim cooperation can contribute to peace on the East African island and, if so, how.
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"Arngeir Langås, in his perceptive and well-researched study Peace in Zanzibar, portrays the emergence and work of the Joint Committee of Religious Leaders for Peace in Zanzibar. Set against the complex and oftentimes strained modalities of interreligious co-existence in Zanzibar, Langås makes a convincing case that the diapraxis model, as developed by this interfaith joint committee, offers potential in bringing religious communities together to work towards a common future." -Martha Frederiks, Professor at Utrecht University
