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Making peace with faith : the challenges of religion and peacebuilding / edited by Michelle Garred and Mohammed Abu-Nimer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peace-building--Religious aspects.
- Peace-building.
- Peace--Religious aspects.
- Peace.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 254 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2018]
- Summary:
- In this text, practitioners from different faiths relate and explore the many challenges they face in their peacebuilding work, which their secular partners may be unaware of. The contributors are all practitioners whose faith or religious experience motivates their work for peace and justice in such a way that it influences their actions.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Michelle Garred and Mohammed Abu-Nimer
- Part One: Engaging Ones Own Faith ; Chapter 1: Articulating a Personal Theology of Interfaith Cooperation / Eboo Patel; Chapter 2: How Being a Jesus-Centered Peacemaker Guides, Inspires and Sustains My Peacemaking Efforts with Muslims / Rick Love; Chapter 3: Journey of Redemption: The Role of an Apology in Reconciliation / Sushobha Barve
- Part Two: Engaging the Other ; Chapter 4: Listening our way to Peace / Yael Petretti; Chapter 5: Faith-Based Peacebuilding in Pakistan: Not for the Faint of Heart / Azhar Hussain; Chapter 6: It is not Easy to Follow Christ: The Road to Peace is a Rocky One / Maria Ida Deng Giguiento with Myla Leguro
- Part Three: Engaging Policy ; Chapter 7: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Secular Approaches to Religion in Multilateral Settings / Azza Karam; Chapter 8: Tightrope-walking: Reconciling Faith Convictions with Impartial Peacebuilding / Peter Dixon; Chapter 9: Peacebuilding as Countering Violent Extremism:' Exploring Contradictions in Faith and Practice / Dishani Jayaweera with Nirosha De Silva
- Part Four: Confronting Injustice and Trauma ; Chapter 10: Transforming Trauma: Wounded Healing in the Way of Jesus / Johanna Turner; Chapter 11: Peace from the Soul of the Nurturer The Gender Question / Despina Namwembe; Chapter 12: Reducing Violence through Better Theology / Qutub Jahan Kidwai.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781538102640
- 1538102641
- 1538102633
- 9781538102633
- OCLC:
- 1022119635
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