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<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>Acknowledgments xvii</p> <p>List of Illustrations xix</p> <p><b>Part I Religion and the Search for Peace 1</b></p> <p>1 Introduction: Religion and the Search for Peace 3<br /><i>Jolyon Mitchell and Suzanna R. Millar</i></p> <p>2 World Religions and Peace 21<br /><i>Jolyon Mitchell, Anna S. King, Susan Hayward, Jasjit Singh, George Wilkes, Joshua Rey, and Hussam Timani</i></p> <p>3 Relationships between Religion and Peace 39<br /><i>Ian S. Markham</i></p> <p>4 The Intersectional Turn: Theories and Practices for Studying Religion and Peace 49<br /><i>Atalia Omer</i></p> <p>5 Peacebuilding and Religion 63<br /><i>John Paul Lederach interviewed by Jolyon Mitchell</i></p> <p><b>Part II Religion and Peace in Local Contexts 79</b></p> <p>6 ‘And a Little Child Shall Lead Them’: Listening to Young People in Israel/Palestine 81<br /><i>Victoria Biggs</i></p> <p>7 Negotiating the Sacred and the Profane in Jerusalem 91<br /><i>Trond Bakkevig</i></p> <p>8 Women’s Empowerment and Peacebuilding in an Islamic Context 101<br /><i>Maryam Ahmad and James DeShaw Rae</i></p> <p>9 Grassroots Peacebuilding in Contemporary Indonesia 112<br /><i>Sumanto Al Qurtuby</i></p> <p>10 From Dust and Ashes: Religion and Peacebuilding in Nepal 124<br /><i>Mark Owen</i></p> <p>11 Pursuing an ‘Oppressed Peace’: Religion, Identity, and Minority Politics among Muslims in Sri Lanka 134<br /><i>Farah Mihlar</i></p> <p>12 Religion and Peacebuilding in Nigeria 143<br /><i>Darren Kew and Chris M. A. Kwaja</i></p> <p>13 Reconciliation and Non-violent Transformation in South Africa: At the Interface of Theology and Secular Politics 155<br /><i>John W. de Gruchy</i></p> <p>14 Religious Emotions and Religious Peacebuilding in Colombia 164<br /><i>Sandra M. Rios Oyola</i></p> <p>15 Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina 174<br /><i>George R. Wilkes</i></p> <p>16 Gendering the Peace Process in Northern Ireland 185<br /><i>Monica McWilliams and Avila Kilmurray</i></p> <p><b>Part III Practices and Embodiments 195</b></p> <p>17 Hinduism: The Culture of Peace and the Ethics of War 197<br /><i>Anna S. King</i></p> <p>18 Cities of Sanctuary, Religion, and Justice 216<br /><i>Helen M. Hintjens</i></p> <p>19 Religion and Museums for Peace 231<br /><i>Clive Barrett</i></p> <p>20 ‘Witchy’ Activism: Self-religion in Global Peace Movements 242<br /><i>Francesca Po</i></p> <p>21 Ritual and Peacebuilding 255<br /><i>Lisa Schirch</i></p> <p>22 Scriptural Reasoning and Peacebuilding 264<br /><i>Peter Ochs</i></p> <p>23 Contemporary Buddhist Peace Movements 275<br /><i>Julie Blythe and Ruth Gamble</i></p> <p>24 Mahatma Gandhi, <i>Satyagraha, </i>and the Politics of Non-Violence 289<br /><i>Anna S. King</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Lived Theologies and Building Peace 307</b></p> <p>25 Theology and Peacebuilding 309<br /><i>Samuel Wells</i></p> <p>26 ‘Righteousness and Peace Will Kiss Each Other’: Christian Communities of Reconciliation and the Pursuit of Justice 319<br /><i>Leah E. Robinson</i></p> <p>27 Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Search for Peace 330<br /><i>Dean J. Johnson</i></p> <p>28 Acts of Resistance: Fruits of Grace: Overcoming Violence Against Women 340<br /><i>Aruna Gnanadason</i></p> <p>29 Spiritual Activism, Atomic Theology, and ‘The Bomb’ in Scotland 349<br /><i>Alastair McIntosh</i></p> <p>30 Conflict in Congregations: Power, Polity, and Peace in the Church 364<br /><i>Martyn Percy</i></p> <p>31 Islamophobia and Nonviolence in a ‘Christian Nation’ 373<br /><i>Cynthia Boaz</i></p> <p>32 News Media for Just Peace? Footwashing Making Headlines 383<br /><i>Christopher Landau</i></p> <p>33 Of Gods and Men: Peacebuilding and Catholic Social Teaching 392<br /><i>Theodora Hawksley</i></p> <p><b>Part V Just War, Just Peace 403</b></p> <p>34 Just War, Critique, and Conscientious Objection 405<br /><i>Marc LiVecche and Nigel Biggar</i></p> <p>35 Just Peace: From Versailles to Today 417<br /><i>Maryann Cusimano Love</i></p> <p>36 Religious Warrants: Virtue, Nonviolence, and Just Peace 428<br /><i>Eli S. McCarthy</i></p> <p>37 Can Restorative Justice Transform Structural and Cultural Violence? 438<br /><i>Jason A. Springs</i></p> <p>38 The Humanitarian Conscience between War and Peace 454<br /><i>Tobias Kelly</i></p> <p>39 Ambivalence, Diversity and the Possibility of Religious Peacebuilding 462<br /><i>Scott Appleby</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Religion and Peace on a Global Stage 473</b></p> <p>40 International Relations, Religion, and Peace 475<br /><i>Jeffrey Haynes</i></p> <p>41 Histories: Religious Peace Movements in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 485<br /><i>Megan Shore</i></p> <p>42 Sociological Conceptualizations of Religion and Peacemaking 497<br /><i>John D. Brewer</i></p> <p>43 Geographies of Peace and Religion 509<br /><i>J. P. Singh</i></p> <p>44 Divine Intervention: Invoking God in Peace Agreements 518<br /><i>Robert Forster and Christine Bell</i></p> <p>45 Genocide Prevention, Religion, and Development 530<br /><i>Azza Karam</i></p> <p>46 Nationalism, Religion, and Peace 541<br /><i>Joshua Rey</i></p> <p>47 Religious Leaders and Peace 552<br /><i>Nukhet Sandal</i></p> <p>48 Religion in Peacebuilding: An Emerging Force for Change 562<br /><i>Mohammed Abu-Nimer</i></p> <p>49 Mediation, Peacebuilding, Arts, and Religion 573<br /><i>Isabel Käser and Jolyon Mitchell</i></p> <p>50 Religion and Peacebuilding in the Ukraine-Russia Conflict 589<br /><i>Jolyon Mitchell</i></p> <p>Index 607</p>

<p><b>Jolyon Mitchell</b> 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 <i>Peacebuilding and the Arts</i> (2020).</p> <p><b>Suzanna R. Millar</b> 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 <i>Genre and Openness in Proverbs 10:1-22:16</i> (2020).</p> <p><b>Francesca Po</b> 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 <i>The Study of Ministry</i> (2019).</p> <p><b>Martyn Percy</b> is the 45^th 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.</p>

<p><i>The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace</i> 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.</p> <p>Accessible as a standalone collection or as a partner to <i>The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace</i> 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.</p>

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