TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kuriakose,Karikottuchira
TI  - Terrorism, Religion, and Global Peace: From Concepts to Praxis
T2  - Gorgias Précis Portfolios
SN  - 1463233736
AV  - BL65.V55 .T47 2012
U1  - 201.7273 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ
PB  - Gorgias Press
KW  - Nonviolence
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Peace
KW  - Political violence
KW  - Violence
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - RELIGION / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; Preface --; Contributors --; Chapter 1. Jain Perspectives on Violence and Nonviolence; Wiley, Christi --; Chapter 2. Islam, Gender, and Peace; Kassam, Zayn --; Chapter 3. Nonviolence and Violence in Buddhism; Sheth, S. J. Noel --; Chapter 4. Conflict Resolution and Peace: The Ethical Paradigm in Jesus' Teaching and Life; Kuriakose, Karikkottuchira K. --; Chapter 5. Searching for a New Language of Peace for the World Today; Rajkumar, Evangleione --; Chapter 6. The Role of Religion in Fostering Global Peace and Opposing Terrorism; Masango, Maake --; Chapter 7. Thomas Merton: Peacemaker; Dart, Ron --; Chapter 8. Recent Inter Religious Dialogue and Peace Initiatives in India Especially after Masjid--Mandir Issue; Philip, Bijesh --; Chapter 9. An Unfamiliar Peace; McQueen, Derrick --; Chapter 10. Social Activism and the Role of the African Americans; Blake, Charles --; Chapter 11. Embodied Peacemaking: Living Shalom Close to Home; Keim, Paul --; Chapter 12. Janus, Terrorism and Peacemaking; Dart, Ron --; Chapter 13. Peace Be with Your Body and Spirit: A Korean Christian Feminist Reflection on Peacemaking; Pae, K. Christine --; Chapter 14. Language, Race and Ethnicity: Conflict Resolution in Sri Lanka; Nimalka, Fernando --; Chapter 15. Blood and Benevolence: Violence and Nonviolence in Buddhist and Christian Mysticism; Jung, Kyeongil --; Chapter 16. Peace Concepts in Iconography. Can Orthodox Icons Teach a Peace-theology?-- an Iconological Interpretation; Schneider, Richard
N2  - The contributors of this volume investigate not only human beings' potentialities for violence and terrorism, but also for counter-terrorism and peace. They share with the reader their understandings, knowledge, and experiences of peace and nonviolence experiments set within different religious/cultural traditions, and the possibility of building peace communities around the world
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