Peacemaking and the challenge of violence in world religions

Other Authors: Omar, Irfan A.,, Duffey, Michael K., 1948-, Ebooks Corporation.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages).
Series: Ebook Library (EBL)
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Table of Contents:
  • Jihad and nonviolence in the Islamic tradition / Irfan A. Omar
  • Christianity: from peacemaking to violence and home again / Michael K. Duffey
  • Jewish ideologies of peace and peacemaking / Joshua Ezra Burns
  • From sincereity of thought to peace "all under heaven": the Confucian stance on peace and violence / Sin Yee Chan
  • "Peace is the strongest force in the world": Buddhist paths to peacemaking and nonviolence / Eleanor Rosch
  • Peacemaking and nonviolence in the Hindu tradition / Kalpana Mohanty
  • The irrelevance of euro-christian dichotomies for indigenous peopls: beyond nonviolence to a vision of cosmic balance / Tink Tinker.