Religious Peace, Then and Now

by Wayne P. Te Brake

Overview

Religious Peace, Then and Now presents a radically new perspective on one of the critical challenges of our time: making religious peace in a world afflicted by religious conflict, violence, and war. In a text that is passionate and accessible, Wayne Te Brake demonstrates how concerned citizens and political and religious leaders, who have learned to recognize religious peace when they see religious diversity, can envision and promote a more peaceful world through constructive engagement and nonviolent activism. Religious Peace builds on the author's personal experience as well as his academic research on religious war and religious peace during Europe's Age of Religious Wars and applies what we can learn from that history to our understanding of the prevalence and prospect of religious peace today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666725940
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	06/03/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	190
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Wayne P. Te Brake is Professor Emeritus of History at Purchase College, State University of New York. He has published broadly comparative work on the themes of revolution, contentious politics, and religious coexistence in early modern Europe, including Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700 (1998) and Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe (2017).

Wayne P. Te Brake is Professor Emeritus of History at Purchase College, State University of New York. He has published broadly comparative work on the themes of revolution, contentious politics, and religious coexistence in early modern Europe, including Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700 (1998) and Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe (2017).

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This book offers an excellent perspective on the history of religious peace by a leading historian of Europe. It examines Europe’s religious wars and the creation of widespread religious pluralism. This expert account enables Te Brake to imagine what religious peace might entail in our own time. A must-read for those who care for our contemporary predicament.”

—Peter van der Veer, University of Göttingen



“Te Brake maps the religious wars and religious peace in Western European history with unmatched acumen, making this history straightforward yet sophisticated. . . . His great achievement is to give his readers deep insight into how historical inquiry is so valuable for the identification of patterns, practices, and procedures to help construct religious peace today. This is a book that should be widely read and mined for its historical and political wisdom.”

—Karen Barkey, Bard College



“This book is a brilliant example of applying analysis and insights from the Protestant Reformation in Europe to cases of religious conflict and peace in different parts of the contemporary world. Te Brake persuasively offers nonviolent activism and encourages the agency of non-state actors as a solution to ending religious violence and wars.”

—Yonca Köksal, Koç University

Editorial Reviews

This book offers an excellent perspective on the history of religious peace by a leading historian of Europe. It examines Europe’s religious wars and the creation of widespread religious pluralism. This expert account enables Te Brake to imagine what religious peace might entail in our own time. A must-read for those who care for our contemporary predicament.”

—Peter van der Veer, University of Göttingen



“Te Brake maps the religious wars and religious peace in Western European history with unmatched acumen, making this history straightforward yet sophisticated. . . . His great achievement is to give his readers deep insight into how historical inquiry is so valuable for the identification of patterns, practices, and procedures to help construct religious peace today. This is a book that should be widely read and mined for its historical and political wisdom.”

—Karen Barkey, Bard College



“This book is a brilliant example of applying analysis and insights from the Protestant Reformation in Europe to cases of religious conflict and peace in different parts of the contemporary world. Te Brake persuasively offers nonviolent activism and encourages the agency of non-state actors as a solution to ending religious violence and wars.”

—Yonca Köksal, Koç University

From the Publisher