Course Introduction — Start Here
Module 1
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Lecture 1: Introductory Comments on Religion, Peace and Conflict (1:05:58)
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Video Clip — Miroslav Volf: "Honor Everyone" (The Work of the People)
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Video Clip — Stephen Prothero: "Islam" (World Religions Background Information)
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Supplemental Reading — "The Changing Global Religious Landscape" (Pew Research Center)
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Supplemental Reading — Robert Pape: "It's the Occupation, Stupid" (Foreign Policy)
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Supplemental Reading — "Religion in Conflict and Peacebuilding Analysis Guide" (USIP)
Module 2
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Lecture 2 – Interreligious Peacebuilding between Christians and Muslims: Eastern Christianity, Mennonites, and Muslims (48:54)
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Video Clip — Walter Brueggemann: “Honoring Our Particularities” (The Work of the People)
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Video Clip — Stephen Prothero: "Christianity" (World Religions Background Information)
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Supplemental Reading — Andrew P. Klager: "Mennonite Religious Values as a Resource for Peacebuilding between Orthodox Christians and Muslims" (Peace Research)
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Supplemental Reading — Fr. John McGuckin: "Nonviolence and Peace Traditions in Early and Eastern Christianity" (In Communion)
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Supplemental Reading — Wolfgang Palavar: "Mimetic Theories of Religion and Violence"
Module 3
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Lecture 3 – Lisa Schirch: “Ritual, Religion, and Peacebuilding” (13:21)
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Lecture 4 – Ron Dart: “Judaism, Justice and Shalom: The Prophetic Tradition — Then and Now” (21:09)
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Video Clip – Marc Gopin and Hind Kabawat: "Unusual Pairs" (ZejMedia)
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Video Clip — Stephen Prothero: "Judaism" (World Religions Background Information)
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Supplemental Reading — "Shalom: Peace in Hebrew" (My Jewish Learning)
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Supplemental Reading — Michael Walzer: "War and Peace in the Jewish Tradition"
Module 4
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Lecture 5 – Interreligious Hospitality and the Gift of Pessimism: A Case Study of Muslims and Coptic Christians in Egypt (53:13)
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Video Clip — Scott Alexander: "Hospitality In A Multifaith World" (The Work of the People)
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Video Clip — Brian McLaren: "Toward the Other” (The Work of the People)
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Supplemental Reading — Thomas E. Reynolds: "Toward a Wider Hospitality: Rethinking Love of Neighbour in Religions of the Book" (Irish Theological Quarterly)
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Supplemental Reading — "Planning Dialogue" (Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue)
Module 5
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Lecture 6 – Ron Dart: “The Buddhist Tradition of Justice and Peace” (25:49)
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Video Clip — Scott Alexander: "Knowing and Loving Our Neighbors of Other Faiths" (The Work of the People)
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Video Clip — Rt. Rev. Mano Rumalshah: "Religious Sacred Space" (The Work of the People)
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Video Clip — Dalai Lama: "Nonviolence and Ethical Values"
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Video Clip — Stephen Prothero: "Buddhism" (World Religions Background Information)
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Supplemental Reading — Michael Philips-Anderson: "Writing a love letter to your (perceived) enemy: Thích Nhất Hạnh and the rhetoric of nonviolence" (ESSACHESS: Journal for Communication Studies)
Module 6
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Lecture 7 – Ron Dart: “Hinduism and Thoughts on Interfaith Dialogue” (31:52)
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Video Clip — Scott Alexander: "Holy Envy" (The Work of the People)
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Video Clip — Rt. Rev. Mano Rumalshah: "The Ultimate Embrace" (The Work of the People)
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Video Clip — Stephen Prothero: "Hinduism" (World Religions Background Information)
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Supplemental Reading — Vinay Lal: "Gandhi’s Religion: Politics, Faith, and Hermeneutics" (Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology)
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Supplemental Reading — Andrew Klager: "Us Versus Them: The Myth that Underlies Our Violence Against the Other" (Clarion Journal of Spirituality and Justice)
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