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

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