Between Eden and Armageddon

Marc Gopin, author of Holy War, Holy Peace (Oxford, 2002), is James H. Laue Professor and Director of the Center on Religion, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University.

• I. Introduction 1: Alternative Global Futures in the Balance 2: Between Religion and Conflict Resolution: Mapping a New Field of Study II. A Critique of Current Secular ad Religious Approaches to Conflict and Peace 3: Why Modern Culture Fails to Understand Religiously Motivated Violence 4: What id Midding from Religious Approaches to War and Peace: Judaism an Islam as Paradigms 5: Modern Jewish Orthodox Theologies of Interreligious Coexistence: Strengths and Weaknesses III. Paradigms of Religious Peacemaking in a Multicultural and Secular Context 6: Healing/Secular Conflict: The Case of Contemporary Israel 7: Conflict Resolution as a Religious Experience: Contemporary Mennonite Peacemaking New Paradigms of Religion and Conflict Resolution: A Case Study of Judaism IV Conclusion 9: Systematic Recommendations for Intervention in Contemporary Conflicts Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

His analysis of Judaism in terms of ways its religious traditions could facilitate the lessening of tensions and radical enmity between peoples is very convincing and moving.