Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace

Jolyon Mitchell is a Professor specializing in Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding and Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI) at the University of Edinburgh, UK. A former President of TRS UK, he has also worked with Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious leaders on peacebuilding projects in Jerusalem. His recent books include Religion and War (2021) and Peacebuilding and the Arts (2020).Suzanna R. Millar is Chancellor’s Fellow in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Assistant Director of Edinburgh’s Centre for Theology and Public Issues. Her research interests include wisdom literature in the Hebrew Bible, ecological hermeneutics and non-human animals. She is the author of Genre and Openness in Proverbs 10:1-22:16 (2020).Francesca Po is a scholar of religion specializing in contemporary religion and nonreligion. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors at the Metta Center for Nonviolence in Petaluma, CA, USA, and an educator of religious studies in California, USA. She previously served in the US Peace Corps as well as a high school campus minister, and is the co-editor of The Study of Ministry (2019).Martyn Percy is the 45th Dean of Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK, where he also teaches in the Faculty of Theology and Religion and tutors at the Saïd Business School. Between 2004 and 2014 he was Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon in Oxford, one of the largest Anglican ordination training centers in the world. Author of many books, he writes on religion in contemporary culture.

• ContentsNotes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xviiList of Illustrations xixPart I Religion and the Search for Peace 11 Introduction: Religion and the Search for Peace 3Jolyon Mitchell and Suzanna R. Millar  2 World Religions and Peace 21Jolyon Mitchell, Anna S. King, Susan Hayward, Jasjit Singh, George Wilkes, Joshua Rey, and Hussam Timani  3 Relationships between Religion and Peace 39Ian S. Markham4 The Intersectional Turn: Theories and Practices for Studying Religion and Peace 49Atalia Omer5 Peacebuilding and Religion 63John Paul Lederach interviewed by Jolyon MitchellPart II Religion and Peace in Local Contexts 796 ‘And a Little Child Shall Lead Them’: Listening to Young People in Israel/Palestine 81Victoria Biggs7 Negotiating the Sacred and the Profane in Jerusalem 91Trond Bakkevig8 Women’s Empowerment and Peacebuilding in an Islamic Context 101Maryam Ahmad and James DeShaw Rae9 Grassroots Peacebuilding in Contemporary Indonesia 112Sumanto Al Qurtuby  10 From Dust and Ashes: Religion and Peacebuilding in Nepal 124Mark Owen  11 Pursuing an ‘Oppressed Peace’: Religion, Identity, and Minority Politics among Muslims in Sri Lanka 134Farah Mihlar  12 Religion and Peacebuilding in Nigeria 143Darren Kew and Chris M. A. Kwaja  13 Reconciliation and Non-violent Transformation in South Africa: At the Interface of Theology and Secular Politics 155John W. de Gruchy  14 Religious Emotions and Religious Peacebuilding in Colombia 164Sandra M. Rios Oyola  15 Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina 174George R. Wilkes16 Gendering the Peace Process in Northern Ireland 185Monica McWilliams and Avila Kilmurray  Part III Practices and Embodiments 195  17 Hinduism: The Culture of Peace and the Ethics of War 197Anna S. King  18 Cities of Sanctuary, Religion, and Justice 216Helen M. Hintjens  19 Religion and Museums for Peace 231Clive Barrett  20 ‘Witchy’ Activism: Self-religion in Global Peace Movements 242Francesca Po  21 Ritual and Peacebuilding 255Lisa Schirch  22 Scriptural Reasoning and Peacebuilding 264Peter Ochs  23 Contemporary Buddhist Peace Movements 275Julie Blythe and Ruth Gamble  24 Mahatma Gandhi, Satyagraha, and the Politics of Non-Violence 289Anna S. King  Part IV Lived Theologies and Building Peace 307  25 Theology and Peacebuilding 309Samuel Wells  26 ‘Righteousness and Peace Will Kiss Each Other’: Christian Communities of Reconciliation and the Pursuit of Justice 319Leah E. Robinson  27 Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Search for Peace 330Dean J. Johnson  28 Acts of Resistance: Fruits of Grace: Overcoming Violence Against Women 340Aruna Gnanadason  29 Spiritual Activism, Atomic Theology, and ‘The Bomb’ in Scotland 349Alastair McIntosh  30 Conflict in Congregations: Power, Polity, and Peace in the Church 364Martyn Percy  31 Islamophobia and Nonviolence in a ‘Christian Nation’ 373Cynthia Boaz  32 News Media for Just Peace? Footwashing Making Headlines 383Christopher Landau  33 Of Gods and Men: Peacebuilding and Catholic Social Teaching 391Theodora Hawksley  Part V Just War, Just Peace 403  34 Just War, Critique, and Conscientious Objection 405Marc LiVecche and Nigel Biggar  35 Just Peace: From Versailles to Today 417Maryann Cusimano Love  36 Religious Warrants: Virtue, Nonviolence, and Just Peace 428Eli S. McCarthy  37 Can Restorative Justice Transform Structural and Cultural Violence? 438Jason A. Springs  38 The Humanitarian Conscience between War and Peace 454Tobias Kelly  39 Ambivalence, Diversity and the Possibility of Religious Peacebuilding 462Scott Appleby  Part VI Religion and Peace on a Global Stage 473  40 International Relations, Religion, and Peace 475Jeffrey Haynes  41 Histories: Religious Peace Movements in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 485Megan Shore  42 Sociological Conceptualizations of Religion and Peacemaking 497John D. Brewer  43 Geographies of Peace and Religion 509J. P. Singh  44 Divine Intervention: Invoking God in Peace Agreements 518Robert Forster and Christine Bell  45 Genocide Prevention, Religion, and Development 530Azza Karam  46 Nationalism, Religion, and Peace 541Joshua Rey  47 Religious Leaders and Peace 552Nukhet Sandal  48 Religion in Peacebuilding: An Emerging Force for Change 562Mohammed Abu-Nimer  49 Mediation, Peacebuilding, Arts, and Religion 573Isabel Käser and Jolyon Mitchell  50 Religion and Peacebuilding in the Ukraine-Russia Conflict 589Jolyon Mitchell  Index 607