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War and the American Difference: An Interview with Stanley Hauerwas

Photograph by The National Guard.

In his book, War and the American Difference: Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity (Baker Academic 2011), Christian ethicist Stanley Hauerwas argues that war is one moral experience that all Americans in the United States1share. It is “the glue that gives

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Religious Peacebuilding: The Exotic, the Good, and the Theatrical

Photograph of Participants at Global Interfaith Action

Download PDF:  Omer, Religious Peacebuilding  Abstract Most of what takes place in the field of religious peacebuilding has been grounded, implicitly or explicitly, in Scott Appleby’s The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation (2000) and his phenomenological approach to religion.

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