Lorenzo Milani's Culture of Peace : Essays on Religion, Education, and Democratic Life

Researchers, activists, and educators draw inspiration from the radical thought of Lorenzo Milani to invite readers to explore the intricacies, logistics, ethics and pedagogy of conflict and peace as played out in a number of domains, including religion, education, gender, sexuality, democracy, art, sociology and philosophy. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Introduction....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 The Catholic, Italian, and Tuscan Ecclesiastical Contexts of Don Milani’s “Letter to the Military Chaplains”....Pages 13-28 Peace and the Religions in a Changing World: From Consensus to Difference....Pages 29-40 Vatican II’s Teaching on Peace and War: A Contribution to Conciliar Hermeneutics....Pages 41-51 The Church as a Sacrament of the Future....Pages 53-62 Front Matter....Pages 63-63 The History of World Peace in 100 Objects: Visualizing Peace in a Peace Museum....Pages 65-76 Responding to the Call of Peace: In Memory of a Future That Might Have Been....Pages 77-90 Peace Education in a Culture of War....Pages 91-96 On Education, Negotiation, and Peace....Pages 97-110 From Conflict to Conflict Resolution: Teaching the History of Cyprus in the Buffer Zone....Pages 111-130 Beyond Reality Dissonance: Improving Sustainability of Peace Education Effects....Pages 131-146 Because “I Care”: From an Encounter to a Political Option....Pages 147-158 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 Peace Education and Critical Democracy: Some Challenges in Neoliberal Times....Pages 161-173 Does Democracy Promote Peace? A Rancière Reading of Politics and Democracy....Pages 175-186 Peace and Sexuality—Two Reflections....Pages 187-193 On Art and Politics: Exploring the Philosophical Implications of the Creative Order of Art on the Organization of Social Relations....Pages 195-202 Can We Learn from Comparing Violent Conflicts and Reconciliation Processes? For a Sociology of Conflict and Reconciliation Going beyond Sociology....Pages 203-217 The “Modern” Muslim Woman in the Arab Peoples’ Revolution of Freedom and Dignity....Pages 219-231 Critical Epilogue: Making Sense of Lorenzo Milani’s Antiwar Project in Our Times....Pages 233-244 Back Matter....Pages 245-253