Sacred Violence and Sacred Pacifism: The Paradox of Interpretation

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Panelists:

Ali Assani
Professor of the Practices of Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures, Harvard University; Author, Celebrating Muhammad: Images of the Prophet in Popular Muslim Poetry

Johan Galtung
Founder, International Peace Research Institute; Founder, Journal of Peace Research; Recipient, Right Livelihood Award, 1987; Author, Buddhism: A Quest for Unity and Peace; Peace by peaceful Means and The Way Is the Goal: Gandhi Today

J. Bryan Hehir
Professor of the Practice of Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School; Author, Papal Foreign Policy and The Just-War Ethic and Catholic Theology: Dynamics of Change and Continuity

Samuel Heilman
Proshansky Professor of Jewish Studies and Sociology, Graduate Center and Queens College, City University of New York; Author, "Quiescent and Active Fundamentalisms: The Jewish Cases"

Mark Juergensmeyer
Author, The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State; Editor, Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World; Professor of Sociology and Religion, University of California, Santa Barbara

David Little
Senior Scholar on Religion, Ethics and Human Rights, U.S. Institute of Peace; Co-Editor, Human Rights and the Conflicts of Culture: Western and Islamic Perspectives on Religious Liberty

William McLennan
Reverend; University Chaplain, Tufts University; Lecturer on Ethics, Harvard Business School

Micah Meisel
Sophomore, Tufts University; 1996 EPIIC Colloquium Member; EPIIC Research Trip Abroad, Jerusalem

Charles Strozier
Professor of History, John Jay College, City University of New York; Author, Apocalypse: The Psychology of Fundamentalism in America

Moderator:
Damon Matlon
EPIIC Colloquium

Interlocutors:
Mark Juergensmeyer and William McLennan