Publisher's Synopsis
Facing issues of violence and conflict, authors of textbooks for religious education choose a range of different strategies. While some try to write as non-controversially as possible about such issues, other authors choose to leave them completely out. Even in the academic study of religions, a well-established perspective is that religion is primarily something good and important for societies as well as for human development. 'Textbook Violence' offers critical perspectives on how textbooks deal or not deal with issues of conflict and violence in religions.
