The Ambivalence of the Sacred

Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation

Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
Carnegie Corporation of New York
By:
R. Scott Appleby


Contents

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Contents, Foreword, Preface, Introduction:Powerful Medicine

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Chapter 1: The Growing End of an Argument

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Chapter 2: Religion's Violent Accomplices

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Chapter 3: Violence as a Sacred Duty: Patterns of Religious Extremism

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Chapter 4: Miliants for Peace
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Chapter 5: Reconciliation and the Politics of Forgiveness
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Chapter 6: Religion and Conflict Transformation
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Chapter 7: The Promise of Internal Pluralism:
Human Rights and Religious Mission
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Chapter 8: Ambivalence as Opportunity:
Strategies for Promoting Religious Peacebuilding
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Notes
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Selected Bibliography
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Index
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About the Carnegie Commission and the Author
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