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In this ground-breaking volume, the authors analyze the role of religion in conflict and conflict resolution. They do so from the perspectives of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, while bringing different disciplines into play, including peace and conflict studies, religious studies, theology, and ethics. With much of current academic, political, and public attention focusing on the conflictive dimensions of religion, this book also explores the constructive resources of religion for conflict resolution and reconciliation. Analyzing the specific contributions of religious actors in this field, their potentials and possible problems connected with them, this book sheds light on the concrete contours of the oftentimes vague "religious factor" in processes of social change. Case studies in current and former settings of violent conflict such as Israel, post-genocide Rwanda, and Pakistan provide "real-life" contexts for discussion. Combining cutting-edge research with case studies and concrete implications for academics, policy makers, and practitioners, this concise and easily accessible volume helps to build bridges between these oftentimes separated spheres of engagement.The Open Access version of this book, available at:http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003002888, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Auch in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur ist Religion in vielfältiger Weise präsent. Der vorliegende Band fragt aus literaturwissenschaftlicher und theologischer Perspektive nach den Spielarten dieser Liaison: Wovon genau handelt die Gegenwartsliteratur, wenn sie von Religion handelt? Und wie tut sie dies, in welcher Weise adaptiert sie religiöse Stoffe, Fragen, Sprachspiele? In theoretischen Beiträgen, vor allem aber in sorgfältigen Lektüren von Texten der letzten zehn Jahre, wird dokumentiert, was bereits zur These eines religious turn in der Gegenwartsliteratur Anlass gab. Diskutiert werden u. a. Werke von Lukas Bärfuss, Ulrike Draesner, Ernst Jandl, Charles Lewinsky, Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Friederike Mayröcker, Ralf Rothmann und Josef Winkler. Mit Beiträgen von Alfred Bodenheimer, Beatrice Eichmann-Leutenegger, Christoph Gellner, Elisabeth Grözinger, Klaas Huizing, Peter-Jakob Kelting, Georg Langenhorst, Andreas Mauz, Niklaus Peter, Adrian Portmann, Brigitte Schwens-Harrant und Philipp Stoellger, sowie Auskünften von Ulrike Draesner, Sybille Lewitscharoff, Robert Menasse und Ferdinand Schmatz. Die Herausgeber Albrecht Grözinger ist Ordinarius für Praktische Theologie an der Universität Basel. Andreas Mauz ist Assistent für Systematische Theologie an der Universität Zürich. Adrian Portmann ist Studienleiter des Forums für Zeitfragen, Basel.

The religion and state debate in Israel has overlooked the Palestinian-Arab religious communities and their members, focusing almost exclusively on Jewish religious institutions and norms and Jewish majority members. Because religion and state debates in many other countries are defined largely by minority religions' issues, the debate in Israel is anomalous. Michael Karayanni advances a legal matrix that explains this anomaly by referencing specific constitutional values. At the same time, he also takes a critical look at these values and presents the argument that what might be seen as liberal and multicultural is at its core just as illiberal and coercive. In making this argument, A Multicultural Entrapment suggests a set of multicultural qualifications by which one should judge whether a group based accommodation is of a multicultural nature.

Historically, those studying Israelite religion have ignored the existence of women in Iron Age Israel (1200-587 BCE). They have, therefore, accounted neither for the religious beliefs of half of ancient Israel's population nor for the responsibilities that women assumed for maintaining religious rituals and traditions. Such reconstructions of Israelite religion are seriously flawed. Only in the last four decades have scholars, primarily women, begun to explore women's essential roles in Israel's religious culture. This article utilizes evidence from the Hebrew Bible and from archaeological sites throughout Israel. It demonstrates that some women had roles within the Jerusalem Temple. Most women, however, resided in towns and villages throughout the Land. There, they undertook responsibility for clan-based and community-based religious rituals and rites, including pilgrimage, seasonal festivals, rites of military victory, and rites of mourning. They fulfilled, as well, essential roles within the sphere of domestic or household religion. At home, they provided medico-magical healing for all family members, as well as care for women and babies throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. They, and the men in their communities, worshipped Yahweh, Israel's primary deity, and the goddess Asherah, as well; for most people, these two divinities were inextricably linked. ; Open Access Journal ; This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.