MSCF3 01 - Religion:Making War,Making Peace

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Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School

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Melanie A. May This course explores the range of Christian and other religious responses to war and violence, together with traditions of Christian and other religious teachings about peacemaking, both in historical and in contemporary ecumenical and global contexts. Attention will be given to war and peace in biblical traditions, to war and peace as themselves conflictive issues within religious traditions, to statements made by Christian churches on war and peace in the last thirty years, and to the current World Council of Churches Decade to Overcome Violence. Attention will also be given to analyses of structural violence-including gendered perspectives and exploration of ethnic and racial construals of violence-and to various faces and forms of religious extremism. This exploration will aim to articulate new paradigms for Christian peace witness in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.crcds.edu

Phone Number:

(585) 271-1320

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Semester

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