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BETWEEN EDEDN AND ARMAGEDON The future of world religions, violence and peacemaking By Marc Gopen, New York, Oxford University, 2001, PP312 ما بين جنة عدن وجحيم أرمجدون مستقبل أديان العالم، العنف، وصناعة السلام

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The author is an associate professor at the Center for Strategic and Global Studies in Washington, D.C., as well as the Fletcher School of Diplomacy and Law at the University of Tfts and the "Conflict Resolution" programme at the University of Monit. The book revolves around the world's choice between peace, symbolized by the writer of the Garden of Eden, and the option of war and destruction, symbolized by the horror of the Battle of Armageddon, which represents the destruction and the end of the world. In the title, the author is also keen to put his main idea under the subtitle: Will the future of the world's religions be used as an instrument of violence or as a tool for peacemaking? The book is based on the belief that a multi-religious, multicultural world that, through communications such as "one village", is affected by wars or problems, in which religions can play a strong role in enjoying a happy life through their cooperation in achieving human happiness in health, human rights, social justice, and fundamental freedoms. The writer suffers for the erroneous understanding of religions that have been used as a tool for self-proving, denying and even aggression against the other. This has happened in most religions and continues to occur so far. But it is totally unconvincing that these conflicts are relegated to purely religious reasons. It calls for the study of all kinds of religious conflicts and wars in order to reveal their real and hidden causes: Whether they are economic reasons such as a sense of economic disadvantage, social reasons (feeling of social inferiority), tribal or ethnic reasons (tribe or race) or personal causes of the gains made by the men of each religion that are motivated by fanaticism of their own religion, as well as misinterpretations of religious texts that tend to lead to violence without tolerance and exile without attempting to transcend human beings, regardless of colour, sex or religion. The author refers to the misunderstanding of religions by secularists and what they can do in the service of world peace and the universality of human life. He calls on humanists in all their branches to re-examine religions as tools of moral reform in an effort to discover those positive elements of these religions and how they contribute to the creation of our new world, in which all religions live in tolerance, and cooperate with scientists in creating a world in which universal values prevail ... For the full article free of charge, please click on the PDF file at the top right of the page.

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