Religion and global peace: the instrumentality of religion
Religious believers claim their religions are peaceful and genuine believers are peacekeepers and peacemakers. In substantiating justification to their claim, they very often refer to religious scriptures. Yet, on the contrary, their claim is confronted by an opposite claim: many wars were fought an...
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| description | Religious believers claim their religions are peaceful and genuine believers are peacekeepers and peacemakers. In substantiating justification to their claim, they very often refer to religious scriptures. Yet, on the contrary, their claim is confronted by an opposite claim: many wars were fought and are being fought in the name of religion; and a great deal of violence can be ascribed to the religious believers. In addition, religious scriptures and history of religions do attest, to a certain extent, permissibility of using physical offence or defence. As a result, a question arises: Is the violence credited to religious believers, due to religions? Or is it because of certain secular causes in which religious texts get invoked very often? In responding to the question, the study relied on the theoretical criticism and justification. The study argued that religions, considering their historical inception, are fundamentally aimed at attaining holistic peace for their immediate subjects and subsequent followers, both spiritually and physically. The study by referring to major religions of the world generally and Islam particularly, argued that in contributing to build global peace, religious believers can plausibly turn to primary peaceful intentions of the religions, if they are provided with a feasible atmosphere.
Keywords: Religious violence, Religious dialogue, Religion and peace. |
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| spelling | iium-243882012-06-21T02:08:31Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/24388/ Religion and global peace: the instrumentality of religion Malik, Mohammad Manzoor Kayadibi, Saim BL Religion Religious believers claim their religions are peaceful and genuine believers are peacekeepers and peacemakers. In substantiating justification to their claim, they very often refer to religious scriptures. Yet, on the contrary, their claim is confronted by an opposite claim: many wars were fought and are being fought in the name of religion; and a great deal of violence can be ascribed to the religious believers. In addition, religious scriptures and history of religions do attest, to a certain extent, permissibility of using physical offence or defence. As a result, a question arises: Is the violence credited to religious believers, due to religions? Or is it because of certain secular causes in which religious texts get invoked very often? In responding to the question, the study relied on the theoretical criticism and justification. The study argued that religions, considering their historical inception, are fundamentally aimed at attaining holistic peace for their immediate subjects and subsequent followers, both spiritually and physically. The study by referring to major religions of the world generally and Islam particularly, argued that in contributing to build global peace, religious believers can plausibly turn to primary peaceful intentions of the religions, if they are provided with a feasible atmosphere. Keywords: Religious violence, Religious dialogue, Religion and peace. Bilsam Yayıncılık 2011-12-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/24388/1/JIS_fall_2011_v.1_n.2_Religion_and_G.Peace.pdf Malik, Mohammad Manzoor and Kayadibi, Saim (2011) Religion and global peace: the instrumentality of religion. Journal of Individual & Society, 1 (2). pp. 149-168. ISSN 2146-4634 http://www.bilsam.org/index.asp?do=journals |
| spellingShingle | BL Religion Malik, Mohammad Manzoor Kayadibi, Saim Religion and global peace: the instrumentality of religion |
| title | Religion and global peace: the instrumentality of religion |
| title_full | Religion and global peace: the instrumentality of religion |
| title_fullStr | Religion and global peace: the instrumentality of religion |
| title_full_unstemmed | Religion and global peace: the instrumentality of religion |
| title_short | Religion and global peace: the instrumentality of religion |
| title_sort | religion and global peace: the instrumentality of religion |
| topic | BL Religion |
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