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The ambivalence of the sacred : religion, violence, and reconciliation
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- Creator
- R. Scott Appleby
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 429 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780847685547, 0847685543, 9780847685554, 0847685551
- OCLC
- ocm41488676
- "Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, Carnegie Corporation of New York."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-406) and index.
- Introduction: powerful medicine -- Coming to terms with religion -- The growing end of an argument -- Religion's violent accomplices -- Violence as a sacred duty: patterns of religious extremism -- Militants for peace -- Reconciliation and the politics of forgiveness -- The logic of religious peacebuilding -- Religion and conflict transformation -- The promise of internal pluralism: Human rights and religious mission -- Ambivalence as opportunity: strategies for promoting religious peacebuilding