Religious Peace, Then and Now
- Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
- History & Biography
- Publisher: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
Religious Peace, Then and Now presents a radically new perspective on one of the critical challenges of our time: making religious peace in a world afflicted by religious conflict, violence, and war. In a text that is passionate and accessible, Wayne Te Brake demonstrates how concerned citizens and political and religious leaders, who have learned to recognize religious peace when they see religious diversity, can envision and promote a more peaceful world through constructive engagement and nonviolent activism. Religious Peace builds on the author's personal experience as well as his academic research on religious war and religious peace during Europe's Age of Religious Wars and applies what we can learn from that history to our understanding of the prevalence and prospect of religious peace today.
Endorsements (3)
“This book offers an excellent perspective on the history of religious peace by a leading historian of Europe. It examines Europe’s religious wars and the creation of widespread religious pluralism. This expert account enables Te Brake to imagine what religious peace might entail in our own time. A must-read for those who care for our contemporary predicament.”
“Te Brake maps the religious wars and religious peace in Western European history with unmatched acumen, making this history straightforward yet sophisticated. . . . His great achievement is to give his readers deep insight into how historical inquiry is so valuable for the identification of patterns, practices, and procedures to help construct religious peace today. This is a book that should be widely read and mined for its historical and political wisdom.”
“This book is a brilliant example of applying analysis and insights from the Protestant Reformation in Europe to cases of religious conflict and peace in different parts of the contemporary world. Te Brake persuasively offers nonviolent activism and encourages the agency of non-state actors as a solution to ending religious violence and wars.”
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