Peace or Violence

Contents

Preface

The editors and contributors

Introduction
JEFF ASTLEY

1. Militant Piety: violence as a sacred duty
   GARETH LLOYD JONES
   
2. The peace that passes all secular understanding: facing religion and ourselves
   JACK G. PRIESTLEY
   
3. The education of the religious fanatic
   JOHN M. HULL
   
4. Hospitality and the voice of the Other: confronting the economy of violence through religious education
   ANDREW WRIGHT
   
5. Power, force and violence
   GABRIEL MORAN
   
6. Developing an ethos of anti-violence: the role of Christianity in Africa
   EUNICE KARANJA KAMAARA
   
7. Education for peace: a multi-dimensional approach
   KARL ERNST NIPKOW
   
8. Does public religious education imply ‘symbolic violence’? In search of a political theory of religious education
   ELISABET HAAKEDAL
   
9. Public and personal peace in life, religion and education: an exercise in ordinary theology
   JEFF ASTLEY
   
10. Violence for political purposes: the case of the London bombings
    WILLIAM K. KAY
    
11. Education for peaceful coexistence in the Israeli State’s Jewish school system
    YAACOV J. KATZ
    

Name index

Subject index