The Oxford handbook of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding /

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Imprint:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
©2015
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 712 pages)
Language:English
Series:Oxford handbooks
Oxford handbooks.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12481795
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Varying Form of Title:Handbook of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding
Other authors / contributors:Omer, Atalia, editor.
Appleby, R. Scott, 1956- editor.
Little, David, 1933- editor.
ISBN:9780190217945
0190217944
9780199731640
0199731640
0199984581
9780199984589
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed Jan. 7, 2015).
Summary:This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. Looking far beyond the traditional parameters of the field, the contributors engage deeply with the legacies of colonialism, missionary activism, secularism, orientalism, and liberalism as they relate to the discussion of religion, violence, and nonviolent transformation and resistance. Featuring numerous case studies from various contexts and traditions, the volume is organized thematically into five different parts. It begins with an up-to-date mapping of scholarshi.
Other form:Print version: Oxford handbook of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2015] 9780199731640