{"product_id":"interrogating-religion-and-peacebuilding-jude-lal-fernando-9798216379690","title":"Interrogating Religion and Peacebuilding: Global Perspectives on Power, Conflict, and Liberation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChallenges the dominant narratives that frame peace as a civilizational ideal.\u003c\/b\u003e At a time when millions demand an end to war, occupation, and systemic oppression, this volume gathers diverse voices in a transnational and decolonial conversation. The contributors interrogate how \"peace\" is too often deployed as a mirage-reproducing systems of exclusion and violence under the guise of stability, order, and reform. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExposing the coloniality embedded within hegemonic peace discourses, contributors reveal how imperial power configurations transform freedom into occupation, democracy into exclusion, and security into violence. Through critically self-reflective engagement with both religious and secular worldviews, contributors propose that peace is not an abstract ideal, but a deeply political construct shaped by empire, enforced through intervention, and justified by a faith in modernity's civilizing mission. Rejecting both reformist inclusion and idealized neutrality, these essays embody a political commitment to the tormented, the resisting, and the marginalized. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \"post-conflict\" pacification to imperial \"peace deals,\" contributors unmask peacebuilding as often war by other means-while advancing liberative spiritualities that reimagine peace as justice from below. This book is not merely critique-it is a call to transformation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jude Lal Fernando\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798216379690\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Jude Lal Fernando","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49084118401279,"sku":"9798216379690","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/interrogating-religion-and-peacebuilding-jude-lal-fernando-9798216379690","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}