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Between terror and tolerance : religious leaders, conflict, and peacemaking /

Civil war and conflict within countries is the most prevalent threat to peace and security in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. A pivotal factor in the escalation of tensions to open conflict is the role of elites in exacerbating tensions along identity lines by giving the ideological...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sisk, Timothy D., 1960- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2011.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: religious leaders, conflict, and peacemaking / Timothy D. Sisk
  • Religion, nationalism, and intolerance / David Little
  • Religious leaders, sectarianism, and the Sunni-Shi'a divide in Islam / Nader Hashemi
  • Between intolerance and coexistence: the Vatican, Maronites, and the war in Lebanon / George Emile Irani
  • Globalization, religion, and nationalism in Israel and Palestine / Micheline Ishay
  • Egypt and the legacy of sectarianism / Scott W. Hibbard
  • Religion, war, and peacekeeping in Sudan: Shari'a, identity politics, and human rights / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
  • Nigeria's religious leaders in an age of radicalism and neoliberalism / Rosalind I.J. Hackett
  • Just enough to hate
  • not enough to love: religious leaders in Northern Ireland / Mari Fitzduff
  • Religion, war, and peace in Tajikistan / Karina Korostelina
  • The spoiler and the reconciler: Buddhism and the peace process in Sri Lanka / Susan Hayward
  • Piety and politics: religious leadership and the conflict in Kashmir / Sumit Ganguly and Praveen Swami
  • Conclusion: From terror to tolerance to coexistence in deeply divided societies / Timothy D. Sisk.