The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace provides an expansive and interdisciplinary view of the complex relationship between religion and peace. Reflecting diverse experience and context, this pioneering volume draws on established, developing, and new research to explore how religious ideals and visions of peace have been expressed and contested in a wide range of different traditions, movements, and practices. Fifty original chapters by leading international scholars and practitioners offer ground-breaking insights into the concepts, history, theories, resources, and practices that have shaped religion's role in challenging violence and building peace. Accessible as a standalone collection or as a partner to The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace is essential reading for advanced students and scholars of peacemaking, peacekeeping, or peacebuilding, as well as a valuable resource for general readers with interest in areas including peace studies, conflict transformation, religious studies, ethics, theology, international relations, political science, philosophy, sociology and history.