Religion, Law and the Role of Force: A Study of Their Influence on Conflict and on Conflict Resolution / / edited by Joseph Coffey, Charles Mathewes.

• Author: Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding.
• TeilnehmendeR: Coffey, Joseph,; Mathewes, Charles,; Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This important volume debates an issue that mankind has always found troubling. Should religion, any religion, authorize the use of force by one people against another? If so, for what causes and in what ways? Scholars from the three Abrahamic traditions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism have contr...