Religious Peace, Then and Now

Wayne P. Te Brake

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781666732344, 9781666725933
• eBook ISBN: 9781666725940
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

Religious Peace, Then and Now presents a radically new perspective on one of the critical challenges of our time: making religious peace in a world afflicted by religious conflict, violence, and war. In a text that is passionate and accessible, Wayne Te Brake demonstrates how concerned citizens and political and religious leaders, who have learned to recognize religious peace when they see religious diversity, can envision and promote a more peaceful world through constructive engagement and nonviolent activism. Religious Peace builds on the author's personal experience as well as his academic research on religious war and religious peace during Europe's Age of Religious Wars and applies what we can learn from that history to our understanding of the prevalence and prospect of religious peace today.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Religious Peace, Really?
• Chapter 2: The Elephant in the Room
• Chapter 3: Making Religious War
• Chapter 4: Making Religious Peace
• Chapter 5: Recognizing Religious Peace: The West
• Chapter 6: Recognizing Religious Peace: Some of the Rest
• Chapter 7: When Will We Ever Learn?
• Chapter 8: Making Good Trouble
• Appendix 1: Global Data on the Incidence of All Wars and Religious Wars
• Appendix 2: Europe’s Religious Wars and their Settlements
• Appendix 3: Principal Actors in the History of Religious Confltict/Coexistence
• Appendix 4: French Religious Wars and their Settlements, 1562–1629
• Appendix 5: Benefits and Costs of Religious Coexistence in Early Modern Europe
• Appendix 6: Religious Pluralization in Islam
• Appendix 7: Surveys of Religious Diversity in Hong Kong
• Appendix 8: Religious Diversity in Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan
• Appendix 9: Our Current Cycle of Religious Violence and War
• Bibliography