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Religious Violence and Religious Peacebuilding
March 24, 2007
R. Scott Appleby professor, history, Notre Dame

R. Scott Appleby, director of the Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame, explores how religion can encourage both militancy and peacemaking. According to Appleby, war and pacifism in the name of religion have a common source in religion's attempt to give expression to what is transcendent, or holy.

This lecture opens a daylong workshop on developing religion-based peacebuilding efforts, sponsored by the Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry.

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Image of The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation (Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict)
Author: R. Scott Appleby
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (1999)
Binding: Paperback, 448 pages
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