The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace provides an expansive and interdisciplinary view of the complex relationship between religion and peace. Reflecting diverse experience and context, this pioneering volume draws on established, developing, and new research to explore how religious ideals and visions of peace have been expressed and contested in a wide range of different traditions, movements, and practices. Fifty original chapters by leading international scholars and practitioners offer ground-breaking insights into the concepts, history, theories, resources, and practices that have shaped religion's role in challenging violence and building peace.
Accessible as a standalone collection or as a partner to The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace is essential reading for advanced students and scholars of peacemaking, peacekeeping, or peacebuilding, as well as a valuable resource for general readers with interest in areas including peace studies, conflict transformation, religious studies, ethics, theology, international relations, political science, philosophy, sociology and history.

Jolyon Mitchell is a Professor specializing in Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding and Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI) at the University of Edinburgh, UK. A former President of TRS UK, he has also worked with Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious leaders on peacebuilding projects in Jerusalem. His recent books include Religion and War (2021) and Peacebuilding and the Arts (2020).
Suzanna R. Millar is Chancellor's Fellow in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Assistant Director of Edinburgh's Centre for Theology and Public Issues. Her research interests include wisdom literature in the Hebrew Bible, ecological hermeneutics and non-human animals. She is the author of Genre and Openness in Proverbs 10:1-22:16 (2020).
Francesca Po is a scholar of religion specializing in contemporary religion and nonreligion. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors at the Metta Center for Nonviolence in Petaluma, CA, USA, and an educator of religious studies in California, USA. She previously served in the US Peace Corps as well as a high school campus minister, and is the co-editor of The Study of Ministry (2019).
Martyn Percy is the 45th Dean of Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK, where he also teaches in the Faculty of Theology and Religion and tutors at the Saïd Business School. Between 2004 and 2014 he was Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon in Oxford, one of the largest Anglican ordination training centers in the world. Author of many books, he writes on religion in contemporary culture.