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Confronting religious violence : a counternarrative / Richard A. Burridge, Jonathan Sacks, editors ; with Megan Warner.

Contributor(s): Burridge, Richard A, 1955- [editor.] | Sacks, Jonathan, 1948- [editor.] | Warner, Meg | Redeeming the Past and Building the Future: Confronting Religious Violence with a Counter Narrative (Symposium) (2017 : London, England) [author.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2018]Description: xxv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781481308953; 1481308955Subject(s): Violence -- Religious aspects -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index.
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 education / William Storrar -- Concluding reflections / Jonathan Sacks.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL65.V55 C646 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903529150

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.

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 education / William Storrar -- Concluding reflections / Jonathan Sacks.

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