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Terrorism, Religion, and Global Peace: From Concepts to Praxis / ed. by Karikottuchira Kuriakose.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gorgias Précis PortfoliosPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (378 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781463201647
  • 9781463233730
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201.7273 23
LOC classification:
  • BL65.V55 .T47 2012
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Jain Perspectives on Violence and Nonviolence -- Chapter 2. Islam, Gender, and Peace -- Chapter 3. Nonviolence and Violence in Buddhism -- Chapter 4. Conflict Resolution and Peace: The Ethical Paradigm in Jesus’ Teaching and Life -- Chapter 5. Searching for a New Language of Peace for the World Today -- Chapter 6. The Role of Religion in Fostering Global Peace and Opposing Terrorism -- Chapter 7. Thomas Merton: Peacemaker -- Chapter 8. Recent Inter Religious Dialogue and Peace Initiatives in India Especially after Masjid—Mandir Issue -- Chapter 9. An Unfamiliar Peace -- Chapter 10. Social Activism and the Role of the African Americans -- Chapter 11. Embodied Peacemaking: Living Shalom Close to Home -- Chapter 12. Janus, Terrorism and Peacemaking -- Chapter 13. Peace Be with Your Body and Spirit: A Korean Christian Feminist Reflection on Peacemaking -- Chapter 14. Language, Race and Ethnicity: Conflict Resolution in Sri Lanka -- Chapter 15. Blood and Benevolence: Violence and Nonviolence in Buddhist and Christian Mysticism -- Chapter 16. Peace Concepts in Iconography. Can Orthodox Icons Teach a Peace-theology?— an Iconological Interpretation
Summary: The contributors of this volume investigate not only human beings’ potentialities for violence and terrorism, but also for counter-terrorism and peace. They share with the reader their understandings, knowledge, and experiences of peace and nonviolence experiments set within different religious/cultural traditions, and the possibility of building peace communities around the world
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Jain Perspectives on Violence and Nonviolence -- Chapter 2. Islam, Gender, and Peace -- Chapter 3. Nonviolence and Violence in Buddhism -- Chapter 4. Conflict Resolution and Peace: The Ethical Paradigm in Jesus’ Teaching and Life -- Chapter 5. Searching for a New Language of Peace for the World Today -- Chapter 6. The Role of Religion in Fostering Global Peace and Opposing Terrorism -- Chapter 7. Thomas Merton: Peacemaker -- Chapter 8. Recent Inter Religious Dialogue and Peace Initiatives in India Especially after Masjid—Mandir Issue -- Chapter 9. An Unfamiliar Peace -- Chapter 10. Social Activism and the Role of the African Americans -- Chapter 11. Embodied Peacemaking: Living Shalom Close to Home -- Chapter 12. Janus, Terrorism and Peacemaking -- Chapter 13. Peace Be with Your Body and Spirit: A Korean Christian Feminist Reflection on Peacemaking -- Chapter 14. Language, Race and Ethnicity: Conflict Resolution in Sri Lanka -- Chapter 15. Blood and Benevolence: Violence and Nonviolence in Buddhist and Christian Mysticism -- Chapter 16. Peace Concepts in Iconography. Can Orthodox Icons Teach a Peace-theology?— an Iconological Interpretation

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The contributors of this volume investigate not only human beings’ potentialities for violence and terrorism, but also for counter-terrorism and peace. They share with the reader their understandings, knowledge, and experiences of peace and nonviolence experiments set within different religious/cultural traditions, and the possibility of building peace communities around the world

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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