Böcker i Wiener Beitrage Zur Islamforschung-serien

Religious-cultural diversity and Early Child Education.- Integration and Migration.

This multidisciplinary volume unites research on diverse topics from various time periods on Jewish-Muslim relations, exchanges and coexistence including the Abrahamic tradition enigma, images of Jews in the QurΓÇÖan and Hadith, Ibn al-ΓÇÿArabiΓÇÖs mysticism and the Kabala, comparative feminist theology, Jews, Christians, Muslims and the Gospel of Barnabas, harmonizing religion and philosophy in Andalusia, Jews and Muslims in medieval Christian Spain, Israeli Jews and Muslims, Jewish-Muslim coexistence on Cyprus, Muslim-Jewish Barcelona dialogues, Jewish-Christian-Muslim trialogue and teleology, Jews, Muslims and dietary laws, and German and Swiss integration of Jews and Muslims.

Whether formally incorporated into curriculum and teacher training or informally integrated in contexts such as state or NGO initiatives dealing with resolving social, ethnic, and religious conflicts, peace education is increasingly recognized as a critical component in addressing violence in contemporary plural societies. Peace education can constructively undertake a reframing of historical narratives while inspiring practical community activities. An important, but insufficiently studied and theorized aspect of peace education is the role of religion. The challenge to peace education in today's globalized, diverse, mobile, and religiously pluralistic world is to be able to take both complex global and distinctive local situations into account. The contributions to this integrative collection of essays provide exactly these local and global perspectives on the state of peace education and its relationship to religion across pedagogy and curriculum, state policies, and activism within societies on the front lines of resolving internal conflicts, whether historical or recent, that often reflect aspects of religious identities.