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If religion can foment conflict, it can also cultivate peace. This perspective underpins the essays in this book, which explore the past, present, and future roles of religion and spirituality in transforming political and social conflicts between and within nations.
List of contents
Introduction. NUKHET A. SANDAL AND INGO TRAUSCHWEIZER
Part I. Religion and Peace: Transnational Perspective
1. Peacebuilding, Humanitarianism, and the Place of Indigenous Religions (CECELIA LYNCH)
2. Religion, Governance, and Strategic Peace in Africa (JONATHAN C. AGENSKY)
3. Centering Interpretive and Devotional Networks as Sources of Positive Peace: South Asian Religious Traditions in Transnational Perspective (JEREMY A. RINKER)
4. The Resurrection of Socrates: The Miracle of Dialogue (AFRA JALABI)
Part II. Islam and Peace: Snapshots, Challenges, and Possibilities
5. “Deliver Us from Evil”: Religion and the Problem of Political Violence and Peace (LOREN D. LYBARGER)
6. Religion, Security, and the United States’ “Countering Violent Extremism” Strategy in West Africa (BRANDON KENDHAMMER)
7. Peace Processes and Theologies of Resistance: The Case of the Democratic Islam Congress in Turkey (NUKHET A. SANDAL)
Part III. Christianity and Peace: Snapshots, Challenges, and Possibilities
8. Protector of the Indians?: Christianity and the Indigenous People and Land of Latin America (AMY ERICA SMITH)
9. Paramilitary Funerals during the Northern Ireland “Troubles”: A Missed Opportunity for Peace? (MARGARET M. SCULL)
10. Secularized and Instrumentalized?: Identitarian Christianities and Populist Politics in a Postsecular Europe (SLAVICA JAKELIC)
Concluding Thoughts: Peacebuilding and Religious Engagement in Diplomacy (PETER MANDAVILLE)
Contributors
Index
About the author
Nukhet A. Sandal is an associate professor of political science at Ohio University. She is the author of
Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation: Northern Ireland and Beyond and the coauthor of
Religion and International Relations Theory: Interactions and Possibilities.
Ingo Trauschweizer is a professor of history and former director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University, where he teaches courses on American and global military history, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. His books include
The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War and
Maxwell Taylor's Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam.
Summary
If religion can foment conflict, it can also cultivate peace. This perspective underpins the essays in this book, which explore the past, present, and future roles of religion and spirituality in transforming political and social conflicts between and within nations.
