War and Peace by Bryan S Turner
Reflections on Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” these original essays examine various facets of violence and human efforts to create peace. Religion is deeply involved in both processes: ones that produce violence and ones that seek to create harmony. In the war on terror, radical religion is often seen to be a major cause of inter-group violence. However, these essays show a much more complex picture in which religion is often on the receiving end of conflict that has its origin in the actions of the state in response to tensions between majorities and minorities. As this volume demonstrates, the more public religion becomes, the more likely it is to be imbricated in communal strife.Bryan S. Turner is the presidential professor of sociology and the director of the Committee on Religion at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA, and the director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.
| SKU | NIN9780857283078 |
| ISBN 13 | 9780857283078 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857283073 |
| Title | War and Peace |
| Author | Bryan S Turner |
| Series | Key Issues In Modern Sociology |
| Condition | New |
| Publisher | Anthem Press |
| Year published | 2013-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 230 |
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