R. Scott Appleby is professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, where he also directs the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and serves as a fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Powerful MedicineChapter 2 The Unfolding Response to the SacredChapter 3 Religion's Violent AccomplicesChapter 4 Violence as a Sacred DutyChapter 5 Militants for PeaceChapter 6 Reconciliation and the Politics of ForgivenessChapter 7 Religion and Conflict TransformationChapter 8 Religious Human Rights and Interreligious Peace BuildingChapter 9 Ambivalence as Opportunity

Scott Appleby’s book provides a timely, clear, and highly perceptive treatment of why and how religion has, especially since the end of the Cold War, gravitated to the center of the discussion of international affairs. . . . There is no doubt that this volume will be the centerpiece henceforward of an important new discussion on ‘religion, violence, and reconciliation.’

R. Scott Appleby is professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, where he also directs the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and serves as a fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Powerful MedicineChapter 2 The Unfolding Response to the SacredChapter 3 Religion's Violent AccomplicesChapter 4 Violence as a Sacred DutyChapter 5 Militants for PeaceChapter 6 Reconciliation and the Politics of ForgivenessChapter 7 Religion and Conflict TransformationChapter 8 Religious Human Rights and Interreligious Peace BuildingChapter 9 Ambivalence as Opportunity

Scott Appleby’s book provides a timely, clear, and highly perceptive treatment of why and how religion has, especially since the end of the Cold War, gravitated to the center of the discussion of international affairs. . . . There is no doubt that this volume will be the centerpiece henceforward of an important new discussion on ‘religion, violence, and reconciliation.’

R. Scott Appleby is professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, where he also directs the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and serves as a fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Powerful MedicineChapter 2 The Unfolding Response to the SacredChapter 3 Religion's Violent AccomplicesChapter 4 Violence as a Sacred DutyChapter 5 Militants for PeaceChapter 6 Reconciliation and the Politics of ForgivenessChapter 7 Religion and Conflict TransformationChapter 8 Religious Human Rights and Interreligious Peace BuildingChapter 9 Ambivalence as Opportunity

Scott Appleby’s book provides a timely, clear, and highly perceptive treatment of why and how religion has, especially since the end of the Cold War, gravitated to the center of the discussion of international affairs. . . . There is no doubt that this volume will be the centerpiece henceforward of an important new discussion on ‘religion, violence, and reconciliation.’