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When Peace Is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice
Author(s): Atalia Omer (Author)
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date: May 27, 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 384 pages
- ISBN-10: 022600807X
- ISBN-13: 9780226008073
Book Description
By focusing on the perceptions and histories of Israel’s most marginalized stakeholders—Palestinian Israelis, Arab Jews, and non-Israeli Jews—Atalia Omer cuts to the heart of the Israeli-Arab conflict, demonstrating how these voices provide urgently needed resources for conflict analysis and peacebuilding. Navigating a complex set of arguments about ethnicity, boundaries, and peace, and offering a different approach to the renegotiation and reimagination of national identity and citizenship, Omer pushes the conversation beyond the bounds of the single narrative and toward a new and dynamic concept of justice—one that offers the prospect of building a lasting peace.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Using a ‘hermeneutics of citizenship’ to uncover the implication of liberal and secularist notions of religion in illiberal, racist, and exclusivist understandings of national identity, Atalia Omer shows how men and women of hybrid identities may make distinctive and necessary contributions to peacemaking. Ranging widely over political theory, cultural studies, history, and religious studies—and with an impressive command of comparative politics across the globe—
When Peace Is Not Enough is a stunning and accomplished work and an intellectually and politically courageous one.” — Robert Orsi ― editor of the Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies“Timely and inspirational,
When Peace Is Not Enough challenges the conventional wisdom on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—and on the so-called peace process. Atalia Omer’s fresh and original perspectives about the relationship between liberalism, peace, and war deserve to be read by everyone interested in the theoretical richness of the concept of liberal-nationalism.” — Yehouda Shenhav ― author of The Arab Jews: Nationalism, Religion and Ethnicity“It is not every day that the emotionally charged topic of contemporary Israel/Palestine is addressed with such complexity, creativity and intellectual refinement.” ―
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
