The World Book of Peace
Every Tradition Carries the Same Prayer
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Philosophical NonfictionComparative Spirituality
A chapter-by-chapter journey through the world's major spiritual and philosophical traditions and what each one holds about peace: how to find it, how to practice it, what threatens it, and what restores it.
Written with reverence for each tradition's particularity and attention to the resonances that appear across all of them. Not a book of answers. A book of listening.
Structure
Part One
The Inner Ground
Traditions of inner peace: Buddhism, Taoism, Stoicism, the Christian contemplative tradition, the Sufi interior path.
Part Two
The Peaceable Community
Peace as a social and political project: Judaism's tikkun olam, Islam's ummah, the Haudenosaunee Great Law, Ubuntu philosophy.
Part Three
Peace in the Face of Conflict
What the traditions teach about peace when violence is present: Gandhi, King, Thich Nhat Hanh, Mandela, Tutu.