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The Working Group on Religion and Conflict
The Working Group on Religion and Conflict is a gathering of professors in history of religions, ethics, and theology who are concerned with understanding the nature of inter-religious conflict from an interdisciplinary perspective. Over the period from 2000-2002, their goals are:

  1. to assess recent writing in the field of religion and conflict
  2. to sponsor workshops and conferences related to these issues
  3. to develop a unique pedagogical approach to religion and conflict which integrates Theory Practice Learning

What the group has been reading:

  • Curing Violence, edited by Mark I. Wallace and Theophus H. Smith, Polebridge Press, 1994
  • How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate, Catherine Wessinger, Seven Bridges Press, 2000
  • Human Rights and the Conflict of Cultures: Western and Islamic Perspectives on Religious Liberty, David Little, John Kelsay, and Abdulaziz A. Sachedina, University of South Carolina Press, 1988
  • Religion, Order, and Law: A Study in Pre-Revolutionary England, David Little, Harper & Row, 1969
  • Shots in the Streets: Violence and Religion in South Africa, David Chidester, Beacon Press, 1991
  • Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California Press, 2000

The Meaning and End of Religious Conflict: A Departmental Teaching and Learning Initiative

Funded by Emory University's Office of the Provost and in part by a grant from The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

Purpose of the Project: To learn and to teach as a department about the origins, meaning, and consequences of conflict shaped and fueled by religious traditions, and to develop new ways of teaching and learning about religious conflict within larger educational contexts--including our campus, other educational institutions (in Atlanta and nationwide), and community-based organizations.

Project Directors: The Working Group on Religion and Conflict

More About the Project

Further information about Emory initiatives for study of religious conflict and violence


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