Religious Conflict and Cooperation: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781441148766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str.

Scott Daniel Dunbar

Opis

A tsunami of writings on religious violence and terrorism have engulfed public opinion but few publications offer an introduction to both religious conflict and cooperation in the same volume. Dunbar's book approaches the topic of religion from a balanced perspective by looking at both the malevolent and benevolent faces of religion and combining them into one coherent analysis. Like the book's cover-image, religion's impact on human society consists of multifaceted narratives that comprise strands of a larger whole. The individual chapters of this book give readers concise insights into separate issues of religious conflict and cooperation while combined together they reveal a complex interconnected picture. The author navigates religion's mixed history and ambivalent messages in a concise user-friendly way, offering new philosophical insights and interdisciplinary strategies for facing and alleviating one of the greatest challenges of our time.

Spis treści

Preface Introduction: The Tormented Human Faces of Religion Part I: Religious Conflict 1. Religion and Warfare: The Unholy Mix of Hate, Hubris and Harm 2. Religion and Terrorism: Facing the Devil in the Religious Details Part II: Religious Cooperation 3. Religion and Multifaith Dialogue: Flooding the World with Harmony 4. Religion, Reconciliation and Peace: The Concentric Circles of Calm Conclusion: Towards a More Healthy Heartbeat of Religion Bibliography Index