Religious diversity raises challenges that reverberate at multiple social and political levels. Religious institutions are sources of authoritative claims for believers. They play a crucial role in the articulation and negotiation of domestic conflicts within multicultural societies as well as at the international level. Religious Authorities and Practices of Conflict Resolution asks the following important questions: How is interfaith dialogue to be conceived and structured? Is such a dialogue even possible, if each religious group is entitled to claim decisive and exclusive authority?
The challenge is to explicate how religious authority is compatible with the principle of equal normative standing that is at the core of modern ethics and democracy, and capable of grounding shared action toward peace. This volume proposes that the challenge be addressed by taking a transdisciplinary approach, which appropriates resources and methods from different perspective philosophy, sociology, economics, and law. By integrating perspectives from philosophy, sociology, economics, and law, the book provides a holistic understanding of how religious authority can influence conflict resolution.
Religious Authorities and Practices of Conflict Resolution asks the following important questions: How is interfaith dialogue to be conceived and structured? Is such a dialogue even possible, if each religious group is entitled to claim decisive and exclusive authority?
Introduction Part I: Authority and Agency in Religious Conflicts
1.
Religious Conflict and the Dynamics of Normative Authority
2. Conflict over
Religious Authority: An Economic Approach
3. An Islamic Perspective on
Authority and Equal Standing
4. Aquinas, Authority, and Tradition
5.
Religious Conflicts: Ethical or Political?
6. The Economics of Religious
Conflicts
7. Religious Conflicts Examined Through a Hinge-Theoretic Framework
8. A Negotiation-Theoretic Approach to Religious Conflicts Part II: Normative
Practices of Religious Conflict Resolution
9. Alternative Religious
Communities: Belonging and Authority in Deradicalization Processes and
Micro-peace in the Levant
10. Reconciling State Churches and Freedom of
Religion Under International Law
11. Exploring Conflicts Between Religious
and Secular Normative Worlds in Family Life Disputes
12. Bridges of Belief:
The Role of Religious Cultural Heritage in Fostering Interreligious Dialogue
and Peaceful Coexistence
13. Religion, Arts, and Conflict Transformation:
Mining the Gold of the Possible
Carla Bagnoli is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, currently on a three-year secondment at the National Academy Lincei, affiliated with the International Center Beniamino Segre, where she is conducting a research project on global conflicts. She is also Professorial Fellow of Zentrum für Ethik und Philosophie in der Praxis LMU.
Vincenzo Pacillo is Professor of Law and Religion in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Studies at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He is Director of ORFECT, an interdepartmental center for studies on freedom of religion and cultural pluralism (www.orfect.unimore.it).
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