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Confronting religious violence : a counternarrative / Richard A. Burridge, Jonathan Sacks, editors ; with Megan Warner.
Van Pelt Library BL65.V55 R43 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Redeeming the Past and Building the Future: Confronting Religious Violence with a Counter Narrative (Symposium) (2017 : London, England), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--Religious aspects--Congresses.
- Violence.
- Violence--Religious aspects.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Twelve international experts from a variety of theological, philosophical, and scientific fields address the issue of religious violence in today's world"--Jacket.education
- Contents:
- The stories we tell / Jonathan Sacks
- (Re-)reading the New Testament in the light of sibling rivalry : some hermeneutical implications for today / Richard A. Burridge
- Open religion and its enemies / Guy G. Stroumsa
- Radical encounters : climate change and religious conflict in Africa / Eliza Griswold
- Empathy as policy in the age of hatred / Amineh A. Hoti
- Devoted actors in an age of rage : social science on the ISIS front line and elsewhere / Scott Atran
- Religious freedom and human flourishing / Robert P. George
- Compassionate reason : the most important cultural and religious capacity for a peaceful future / Marc Gopin
- The superorganism concept and human groups : implications for confronting religious violence / David Sloan Wilson
- Monotheism, nationalism, violence : twenty-five theses / Miroslav Volf
- Countering religious, moral, and political hate-preaching : a culture of mercy and freedom against the barbarism of hate / Michael Welker
- Between urgency and understanding : practical imperatives in theological / William Storrar
- Concluding reflections / Jonathan Sacks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index.
- Volume of collected papers, revised for publication, from the symposium "Redeeming the Past and Building the Future: Confronting Religious Violence with a Counter Narrative," which met in London, January 28-30, 2017.
- ISBN:
- 9781481308953
- 1481308955
- OCLC:
- 1035273243
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