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Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation

Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation

Appleby, Scott R.
Hesburgh, Theodore M.

Hardcover

Series: Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict

Comparative ReligionGeneral ChristianityInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0847685543
ISBN13: 9780847685547
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Nov 23 1999
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Terrorists and peacemakers may grow up in the same community and adhere to the same religious tradition. The killing carried out by one and the reconciliation fostered by the other indicate the range of dramatic and contradictory responses to human suffering by religious actors. Yet religion's ability to inspire violence is intimately related to its equally impressive power as a force for peace, especially in the growing number of conflicts around the world that involve religious claims and religiously inspired combatants. This book explains what religious terrorists and religious peacemakers share in common, what causes them to take different paths in fighting injustice, and how a deeper understanding of religious extremism can and must be integrated more effectively into our thinking about tribal, regional, and international conflict.

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