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Marc Gopin. Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemaking. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. viii, 312 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2004

Moshe Cohen
Moshe Cohen
Affiliation:
Achva College of Education, Negev, Israel
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Marc Gopin believes that religion can play an important role in forming a global society committed to peace and moral principles. He bases his belief on the fact that in most religions there is a “commitment to peace and elimination of violence” (p. 30) expressed in a broad range of values. Through the “internal hermeneutic dynamics of the tradition” (p. 60)—that is, through a textual investigation of how traditions have changed—he believes that Muslims, Christians, Jews, and others can contribute to promoting peace.

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Book Review
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AJS Review , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , April 2003 , pp. 155 - 157
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© 2003 by the Association for Jewish Studies

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