Table of Contents 

• • Introduction
  • Histories, Ethnic Conflict and Peace
    Victor Seidler (Goldsmiths College, London)
  • 1. Religious Attitudes to the Middle East Process
    George Wilkes (University of Cambridge
  • 2. Islam and Reconciliation: Traditions, Contexts and Contemporary Practice
    David Herbert (Open University)
  • 4. Religion as a Source of Conflict in the Post-Soviet States
    John Anderson (University of St Andrews)
  • 5. Accommodation, Competition and Conflict: The Increasing Importance of Sectarian Identity in Pakistan
    Saleem Khan (London Metropolitan University)
  • 6. Symbolism, Violence and the Destruction of Religious Communities in the Russian and Ottoman Empires c. 1870-1923
    Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia)
  • 7. War, Honour and Religion
    Paul Robinson (University of Hull)
  • 8. Religion in Rupture: Revolutionary Dechristianisation and its Legacy in France
    Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallet (University of Reading)
  • 9. Catholic-Jewish Relations in Italy from Unification to Vatican II (1870-1965)
    Toby Abse (Goldsmiths College)
  • 10. Conversion and its Consequences: Africans and Islam in Cape Town
    Rebekah Lee (Goldsmiths College)
  • 11. Revisiting Monks’ Politics and Activism in Contemporary Sri Lanka
    Mahinda Deegalle (Bath Spa University)
  • 12. The Cost of Peace: Buddhists and Conflict Transformation in Sri Lanka
    Elizabeth Harris (University of Birmingham)
  • 13. Radical Enlightenment and Empire: The Fate of Spinoza’s Tolerance
    Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths College)
  • 14. Byzantine Attitudes to Islam
    Andrew Louth (University of Durham)