Janet M. Powers

Bio: Janet M. Powers is an academic researcher from Gettysburg College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Islam & Economic Justice. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 15 publications receiving 61 citations.

Teaching war literature, teaching peace

Abstract: This article explores literature taught in three different courses and the peace education approaches used for each, including epics in literature courses, Vietnam War literature, and literature of anger and hope. The author recommends the teaching of war literature as an essential part of a peace education curriculum. Devastating events such as the Holocaust, the Hiroshima‐Nagasaki bombings and the Partition of India should be studied not only as history but also as literature, for deeper truths may emerge from metaphoric representation and descriptive details than can be provided by factual accounts.

Saint Francis and the Sultan: the Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter

Abstract: Saint Francis and the Sultan: the Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter, by John Tolan, Oxford University Press: New York, 2009, xvi + 382pp. ISBN 978 0 19 923972 6, US$55 (cloth) John To...

God at War: A Meditation on Religion and Warfare: by Mark Juergensmeyer, New York, Oxford University Press, 2020, viii + 107 pp., US$19.95 (hardback), ISBN 978 019 007917 8

Abstract: God at War, although a slim book, is of large importance in the wake of what happened at the US Capitol on January 6 of this year. Subtitled A Meditation on Religion and Warfare, this inquiry into ...

Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

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Jerusalem Afflicted : Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a 17th-century Crusade

Abstract: On Good Friday, 1626, Franciscus Quaresmius delivered a sermon in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem calling on King Philip IV of Spain to undertake a crusade to ‘liberate’ the Holy Land. Jerusalem Afflicted: Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a 17th-century Crusade introduces readers to this unique call to arms with the first-ever edition of the work since its publication in 1631. Aside from an annotated English translation of the sermon, this book also includes a series of introductory chapters providing historical context and textual commentary, followed by an anthology of Spanish crusading texts that testify to the persistence of the idea of crusade throughout the 17th century. Quaresmius’ impassioned and thoroughly reasoned plea is expressed through the voice of Jerusalem herself, personified as a woman in bondage. The friar draws on many of the same rhetorical traditions and theological assumptions that first launched the crusading movement at Clermont in 1095, while also bending those traditions to meet the unique concerns of 17th-century geopolitics in Europe and the Mediterranean. Quaresmius depicts the rescue of the Holy City from Turkish abuse as a just and necessary cause. Perhaps more unexpectedly, he also presents Jerusalem as sovereign Spanish territory, boldly calling on Philip as King of Jerusalem and Patron of the Holy Places to embrace his royal duty and reclaim what is rightly his on behalf of the universal faithful. Quaresmius’ early modern call to crusade ultimately helps us rethink the popular assumption that, like the chivalry imagined by Don Quixote, the crusades somehow died along with the middle ages.

Peace Education as an Educational Paradigm: Review of a Changing Field using an Old Measure

Abstract: In recent times there has been increased recognition of peace education by educational and policy authorities, and also a substantial addition in the number of publications in peace education. Considering the growth of knowledge within peace education, this article reflects on ways peace education as an educational paradigm meets a group of criteria that comprise established frameworks in philosophy of education. The process of knowledge legitimation within science and social science is considered, with some reflections of the role of the Journal of Peace Education in this process of paradigmatic consolidation.

Communicating Vessels Ecclesiastic Centralisation, Religious Diversity and Knowledge in Medieval Latin Europe

Abstract: The objective of this article is to analyse several ways of handling religious diversity that were practised in medieval Latin Christian Europe, paying particular attention to the interdependencies...