Religion Between Violence and Reconciliation

This volume assembles the revised papers of the international symposium “Religion between Violence and Reconciliation”, held at the German Orient Institute in Beirut from September 11 to 13, 1998, and sponsored by the European Union in the framework of its Beirut-based Meda program “Vie commune – mémoire partagée: le Liban, laboratoire de la Méditerranée”, jointly organized by the German Orient Institute and the French Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Moyen-Orient Contemporain (CERMOC). ‘Religion’ is not only a matter of scriptures and beliefs, but also, in a wider sense, a field of acts, symbols, and institutions. Thirty-five authors from nine countries and far more intellectual ‘camps’ are discussing the relationship between religion, conflict, and reconciliation in various cultural, spatial, and historical settings. The Lebanese experience informs the focus of most contributions, but in order to place it in a broader comparative and intellectual context, a number of case studies on other countries have been included, among them Afghanistan, Algeria, Palestine, India, Turkey and the Balkans.

Contents:
Angelika Neuwirth (Berlin): Preface
Thomas Scheffler (Berlin): Introduction: Religion between Violence and Reconciliation (pp. 1-27)

Part I: Text and Interpretation
Jan Assmann (Heidelberg): Monotheism and Trauma: Reflections on Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism (pp. 31-48)
Angelika Neuwirth (Berlin): Three Religious Feasts between Narratives of Violence and Liturgies of Reconciliation (pp. 49-82)
Thomas Scheffler  (Berlin): The Radicalism of the Powerless: Imaginations of Violence in Three Religious Traditions (pp. 83-107)
Tarif Khalidi (Beirut): The Poetry of the Khawarij: Violence and Salvation (pp. 109-122)
Ridwan al-Sayyid (Beirut): Dar al-Harb and Dar al-Islam: Traditions and Interpretations (pp. 123-133)
Edgard Weber (Toulouse): La codification juridique du jihad (pp. 135-163)

Part II: History and Memory
Wajih Kawtharani (Beirut): Histoire et mémoire entre croisade et jihad (pp. 167-173)
Elias Khoury (Beirut): On Beirut (pp. 175-178)
Ussama Makdisi (Houston): Revisiting Sectarianism (pp. 179-191)
Youssef Mouawad (Beirut): Exercice de dhimmitude: Patriarche Ilyas al-Huwayyik versus Jamal Pacha (pp. 193-210)
Samir Seikaly (Beirut): Transcending Sectarian Strife: Nafir Suriyyah as Message and Medium (pp. 211-215)
Maher Jarrar (Beirut): Displaced Palestinians, Religious Confrontation, and the ‘Re-production’ of Space in Three Contemporary Novels (pp. 217-227)
Peter van der Veer (Amsterdam): The Victims’ Tale: Memory and Forgetting in the Story of Violence (pp. 229-242)

Part III: Religion and Civil Strife
Mario Apostolov (Geneva): Religion and Nationalism in the Balkans and in Lebanon (pp. 245-259)
Habiba Djahnine (Paris): L’Algérie, dix ans de guerre fratricide: quelle réconciliation possible? (pp. 261-270)
Haldun Gülalp (Istanbul): Political Islam and the Culture of Democracy in Turkey: Confrontation or Accommodation? (pp. 271-281)
Samir Khalaf (Beirut): The Radicalization of Communal Loyalties (pp. 283-299)
Hans G. Kippenberg (Bremen): Religions and Violent Actions (pp. 301-318)
Elizabeth Picard (Aix-en-Provence): La violence milicienne et sa légitimation religieuse (pp. 319-332)
Andreas Rieck (Islamabad): A Violent “Peace-Movement”: Religious World-View and Political Record of Afghanistan’s Taliban (pp. 333-349)

Part IV: Religion, Law, and Coexistence: The Local Dimension
Olivier Christin (Lyon): Sortir des guerres de religion: principes juridiques et modèles politiques (pp. 353-363)
Julia Eckert (Halle): Reconciling the Mohalla: Politics of Violence and the Strength and Limits of Mediation in Bombay (pp. 365-389)
Theodor Hanf with Petra Bauerle (Byblos and Freiburg/Br.): Religiosité et attitudes face aux conflits et à la coexistence: Quelques perspectives empiriques comparées (pp. 391-400)
Aïda Kanafani-Zahar (Paris): The religion of the ‘Other’ as Bond: the Interreligious in Lebanon (pp. 401-418)
Chibli Mallat (Beirut): Non-Violence and the Rule of Law (pp. 419-430)
Antoine Messarra (Beirut): La contribution des religions à la culture de paix: le cas du Liban (pp. 431-448)
Sofia Saadeh (Beirut): Basic Issues Concerning the Personal Status Laws in Lebanon (pp. 449-456)
Sami Zubaida (London): The Nation-State and Religious Community in the Middle East (pp. 457-468)

Part V: Interreligious Dialogue: Pros and Cons
John Donohue SJ (Beirut): The Synod for Lebanon and the Apostolic Exhortation: a programmed exercise in self-criticism and reconciliation (pp. 471-480)
As’ad E. Khairallah (Beirut): The Way of the Cross as a Way of Life: Bishop George Khodr’s Hope in Times of War (pp. 481-495)
Karl-Josef Kuschel (Tübingen): Towards an Abrahamic Ecumene of Jews, Christians, and Muslims: Interfaith Dialogue in the Age of Globalization (pp. 497-519)
Saoud El-Maoula (Beirut): Le dialogue islamo-chrétien au Liban: histoire et problèmes (pp. 521-533)
Muhammad Sammak (Beirut): Religion and Politics: The Case of Lebanon (pp. 535-543)
Dieter Senghaas (Bremen): Some Untimely Reflections on the Dialogue between Christians and Muslims, or Pleading for a Reorientation of the Intercultural Dialogue (pp. 545-559)
Contributors (pp. 561-566)
Index (pp. 567-578)

Language: English
ISBN: 9783899130744
2002, paperback, 578 pages,