by WendyMayer (Editor), Bronwen Neil (Editor)
The essays in this volume engage a variety of inter- and intra-religious conflicts, ranging from the first to eighth centuries CE. The religious conflicts associated with the birth and development of Christianity, from the death of Jesus, to the Apostle Paul, through to the Patristic Era up to and including the beginnings of Islam, are well represented. Given the political and religious tensions in the world today, this volume is well positioned to find relevance and meaning in societies still grappling with the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 270
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 16 Aug 2013
ISBN 10: 3110291789
ISBN 13: 9783110291780
The Centre's interdisciplinary team of scholars put its collaborative focus and collective expertise on a further topic of current global interest, namely religious conflict (previous research projects focused on poverty and crisis management). [...] In the first essay, Religious Conflict: Definitions, Problems and Theoretical Approaches (1-19), Wendy Mayer provides an excellent survey of the problems involved in defining religious conflict, of various recent theoretical approaches (contemporary theories and approaches, approaches to religious conflict in the period 50-850 CE), different international research projects and of shifting paradigms, old problems, and new questions in the study of religious conflict. [...]
The volume testifies to the Centre's approach of bringing together the still largely separate disciplines of New Testament Studies, Patristics, and Latin Antiquity. It indicates to what extent religious conflicts of various kinds and degrees shaped the early centuries of Christianity.
Christoph Stenschke in: Ephemerides Theologica Lovanienses 91,2 (2015)
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