The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace
Blackwell Companions to Religion
1. Edition September 2022
656 Pages, Hardcover
Handbook/Reference Book
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Incisive contributions from leading and emerging scholars in the field of Peace Studies
In the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace, a team of renowned scholars delivers an authoritative and interdisciplinary sourcebook that addresses the key concepts, history, theories, models, resources, and practices in the complex and ambivalent relationship between religion and peace. The editors have included contributions from a wide range of perspectives and locations that reflect diverse methods and approaches.
The Companion provides a collection grounded in experience and context that draws on established, developing, and new research characterized by academic rigor. The differences between the approaches taken by several religious traditions are fully explored and numerous case studies highlight relevant theories, models, and resources.
Accessible as either a standalone collection or as a partner to the Companion to Religion and Violence, this edited volume also offers:
* A thorough introduction to religion and its search for peace, including the relationships between religion and peace and theories and practices for studying the interplay between religion and peace
* Comprehensive explorations of religion and peace in local contexts, including discussions of women's empowerment and peacebuilding in an Islamic context
* Practical discussions of practices and embodiments of religion and peace, including treatments of museums for peace and self-religion in global peace movements
* In-depth examinations of lived Christian theologies and building peace, including discussions of Martin Luther King Jr. and spiritual activism in Scotland
Perfect for students and scholars of peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peace building, the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace will also earn a place in the libraries of anyone professionally or personally interested in the field of Peace or Religious Studies, International Relations, History, Politics, or Theology.
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xvii
List of Illustrations xix
Part I Religion and the Search for Peace 1
1 Introduction: Religion and the Search for Peace 3
Jolyon Mitchell and Suzanna R. Millar
2 World Religions and Peace 21
Jolyon Mitchell, Anna S. King, Susan Hayward, Jasjit Singh, George Wilkes, Joshua Rey, and Hussam Timani
3 Relationships between Religion and Peace 39
Ian S. Markham
4 The Intersectional Turn: Theories and Practices for Studying Religion and Peace 49
Atalia Omer
5 Peacebuilding and Religion 63
John Paul Lederach interviewed by Jolyon Mitchell
Part II Religion and Peace in Local Contexts 79
6 'And a Little Child Shall Lead Them': Listening to Young People in Israel/Palestine 81
Victoria Biggs
7 Negotiating the Sacred and the Profane in Jerusalem 91
Trond Bakkevig
8 Women's Empowerment and Peacebuilding in an Islamic Context 101
Maryam Ahmad and James DeShaw Rae
9 Grassroots Peacebuilding in Contemporary Indonesia 112
Sumanto Al Qurtuby
10 From Dust and Ashes: Religion and Peacebuilding in Nepal 124
Mark Owen
11 Pursuing an 'Oppressed Peace': Religion, Identity, and Minority Politics among Muslims in Sri Lanka 134
Farah Mihlar
12 Religion and Peacebuilding in Nigeria 143
Darren Kew and Chris M. A. Kwaja
13 Reconciliation and Non-violent Transformation in South Africa: At the Interface of Theology and Secular Politics 155
John W. de Gruchy
14 Religious Emotions and Religious Peacebuilding in Colombia 164
Sandra M. Rios Oyola
15 Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina 174
George R. Wilkes
16 Gendering the Peace Process in Northern Ireland 185
Monica McWilliams and Avila Kilmurray
Part III Practices and Embodiments 195
17 Hinduism: The Culture of Peace and the Ethics of War 197
Anna S. King
18 Cities of Sanctuary, Religion, and Justice 216
Helen M. Hintjens
19 Religion and Museums for Peace 231
Clive Barrett
20 'Witchy' Activism: Self-religion in Global Peace Movements 242
Francesca Po
21 Ritual and Peacebuilding 255
Lisa Schirch
22 Scriptural Reasoning and Peacebuilding 264
Peter Ochs
23 Contemporary Buddhist Peace Movements 275
Julie Blythe and Ruth Gamble
24 Mahatma Gandhi, Satyagraha, and the Politics of Non-Violence 289
Anna S. King
Part IV Lived Theologies and Building Peace 307
25 Theology and Peacebuilding 309
Samuel Wells
26 'Righteousness and Peace Will Kiss Each Other': Christian Communities of Reconciliation and the Pursuit of Justice 319
Leah E. Robinson
27 Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Search for Peace 330
Dean J. Johnson
28 Acts of Resistance: Fruits of Grace: Overcoming Violence Against Women 340
Aruna Gnanadason
29 Spiritual Activism, Atomic Theology, and 'The Bomb' in Scotland 349
Alastair McIntosh
30 Conflict in Congregations: Power, Polity, and Peace in the Church 364
Martyn Percy
31 Islamophobia and Nonviolence in a 'Christian Nation' 373
Cynthia Boaz
32 News Media for Just Peace? Footwashing Making Headlines 383
Christopher Landau
33 Of Gods and Men: Peacebuilding and Catholic Social Teaching 391
Theodora Hawksley
Part V Just War, Just Peace 403
34 Just War, Critique, and Conscientious Objection 405
Marc LiVecche and Nigel Biggar
35 Just Peace: From Versailles to Today 417
Maryann Cusimano Love
36 Religious Warrants: Virtue, Nonviolence, and Just Peace 428
Eli S. McCarthy
37 Can Restorative Justice Transform Structural and Cultural Violence? 438
Jason A. Springs
38 The Humanitarian Conscience between War and Peace 454
Tobias Kelly
39 Ambivalence, Diversity and the Possibility of Religious Peacebuilding 462
Scott Appleby
Part VI Religion and Peace on a Global Stage 473
40 International Relations, Religion, and Peace 475
Jeffrey Haynes
41 Histories: Religious Peace Movements in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 485
Megan Shore
42 Sociological Conceptualizations of Religion and Peacemaking 497
John D. Brewer
43 Geographies of Peace and Religion 509
J. P. Singh
44 Divine Intervention: Invoking God in Peace Agreements 518
Robert Forster and Christine Bell
45 Genocide Prevention, Religion, and Development 530
Azza Karam
46 Nationalism, Religion, and Peace 541
Joshua Rey
47 Religious Leaders and Peace 552
Nukhet Sandal
48 Religion in Peacebuilding: An Emerging Force for Change 562
Mohammed Abu-Nimer
49 Mediation, Peacebuilding, Arts, and Religion 573
Isabel Käser and Jolyon Mitchell
50 Religion and Peacebuilding in the Ukraine-Russia Conflict 589
Jolyon Mitchell
Index 607
Suzanna R. Millar is Chancellor's Fellow in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Assistant Director of Edinburgh's Centre for Theology and Public Issues. Her research interests include wisdom literature in the Hebrew Bible, ecological hermeneutics and non-human animals. She is the author of Genre and Openness in Proverbs 10:1-22:16 (2020).
Francesca Po is a scholar of religion specializing in contemporary religion and nonreligion. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors at the Metta Center for Nonviolence in Petaluma, CA, USA, and an educator of religious studies in California, USA. She previously served in the US Peace Corps as well as a high school campus minister, and is the co-editor of The Study of Ministry (2019).
Martyn Percy is the 45th Dean of Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK, where he also teaches in the Faculty of Theology and Religion and tutors at the Saïd Business School. Between 2004 and 2014 he was Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon in Oxford, one of the largest Anglican ordination training centers in the world. Author of many books, he writes on religion in contemporary culture.
