Religious Conflict from Early Christianity to the Rise of Islam: 121

“The Centre’s interdisciplinary team of scholars put its collaborative focus and collective expertise on a further topic of current global interest, namely religious conflict (previous research projects focused on poverty and crisis management). […] In the first essay, “Religious Conflict: Definitions, Problems and Theoretical Approaches” (1-19), Wendy Mayer provides an excellent survey of the problems involved in defining religious conflict, of various recent theoretical approaches (contemporary theories and approaches, approaches to religious conflict in the period 50-850 CE), different international research projects and of “shifting paradigms, old problems, and new questions” in the study of religious conflict. […]
The volume testifies to the Centre’s approach of bringing together the still largely separate disciplines of New Testament Studies, Patristics, and Latin Antiquity. It indicates to what extent religious conflicts of various kinds and degrees shaped the early centuries of Christianity.”
Christoph Stenschke in: Ephemerides Theologica Lovanienses 91,2 (2015)

David Luckensmeyer, Wendy Mayer, and Bronwen Neil, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Australia.