The book provides a comprehensive overview of the literature on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. With a focus on structural and cultural violence, the volume also offers a cutting edge interdisciplinary reframing of the scope of scholarship in the field.

• Preface


• Atalia Omer


• Part One: Mapping the Field


• 1. Atalia Omer, "Religious Peacebuilding: The Exotic, the Good, and the Theatrical"


• 2. R. Scott Appleby, "Religious Violence: The Strong, the Weak, and the Pathological"


• Part Two: The Historical and the Historicist


• 3. David Little, "Religion, Peace, and the Origins of Nationalism"


• 4. Scott Hibbard, "Religion, Nationalism, and the Politics of Secularism"


• 5. Slavica Jakelic, "Secular-Religious Encounters as Peacebuilding"


• 6. Jason Springs, "Structural and Cultural Violence in Religion and Peacebuilding"


• Part Three: Contested Issues


• 7. R. Scott Appleby, "The New Name for Peace? Religion and Development as Partners in Strategic Peacebuilding"


• 8. Patrick Mason, "Violent and Nonviolent Religious Militancy"


• 9. Rashied Omar, "Religious Violence and State Violence"


• 10. John Kelsay, "Peacebuilding and the Comparative Study of Ethics"


• 11. W. Cole Durham, Jr. and Elizabeth A. Clark, "The Place of Religious Freedom in the Structure of Peacebuilding"


• 12. Susan Hayward, "Women, Religion, and Peacebuilding"


• Part Four: Peacebuilding in Practice: Strategies, Resources, Critique


• 13. Daniel Philpott, "Reconciliation, Politics, and Transitional Justice"


• 14. Marc Gopin, "Negotiating Secular and Religious Contributions to Social Change and Peacebuilding"


• 15. Tim Shah, "Secular Militancy as an Obstacle to Peacebuilding"


• 16. Peter van der Veer, Tam Ngo, and Dan Smyer Yu, "Religion and Peace in Asia"


• 17. S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana, "Peacebuilding in the Muslim World"


• 18. Eboo Patel and Cassie Meyer, "Youth and Interfaith Conflict Transformation"


• 19. Peter Ochs, "The Possibilities and Limits of Interreligious Dialogue"


• 20. Lisa Schirch, "Ritual, Religion, and Peacebuilding"


• 21. John Paul Lederach, "Spirituality and Religious Peacebuilding"


• 22. Heather M. DuBois and Janna Hunter-Bowman, "The Intersection of Christian Theology and Peacebuilding"


• 23. Cecilia Lynch, "Religious Communities and Possibilities for Justpeace"


• 24. Atalia Omer, "Religion, Nationalism, and Solidarity Activism"


• Part Five: The Growing Edge of the Conversation


• 25. Atalia Omer "Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding: Synthetic Remarks"


• Index

R. Scott Appleby is Professor of History and John M. Regan, Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
David Little is Professor Emeritus of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict and Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard Divinity School.
Atalia Omer is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Program in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding, at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, at the University of Notre Dame.