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Article: Religion and Peacebuilding.(Book review)
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- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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Religion and Peacebuilding, edited by HAROLD COWARD and GORDON S. SMITH. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2004, 320 pp.; $73.50 USD (cloth), $24.95 USD (paper).
In recent decades, the role of religion has increased both in Western and non-Western societies. Religion continues to be significant in individual lives, collective identities and political mobilization. Furthermore, religion today is quintessential of identity politics and it functions both as a liberating and a repressing factor. The collection of articles that Harold Coward and Gordon S. Smith have assembled in their edited volume on religion and peacemaking is an important contribution to ...
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