Atalia Omer is a Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame in the United States. She is also the Dermot T.J. Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peace Building at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at Harvard University's Religion and Public Life program. Omer was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2017. Among other publications, Omer is the author of When Peace is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice (2015) and Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians (2019). She is also a co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding (Oxford, 2015).

In Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding, Atalia Omer sounds a stunning and urgent call for us to recognize that current approaches to the integration and bureaucratization of religion in peacebuilding and development work can actually serve to denude religion of the prophetic impulse to justice, thereby reinscribing the very relations of power it seeks to disrupt. This book represents not only a significant academic advance in decolonial understandings of religion, but also a timely and powerfully counterintuitive warning to practitioners.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and frequently Used non-English WordsIntroductionChapter 1: Historical Background and Colonial AfterlivesChapter 2: "Sisyphean" GovernanceChapter 3: Doing ReligionChapter 4: Survival Piety: A Preferential Option for the Poor?Chapter 5: Religion and "Soft" Security: Countermessaging and SurveillanceChapter 6: "Religious" Resiliency and "Soft" Security Chapter 7: Un-Revolutionary Decolonial Love: The Spirituality of Just "Getting Alone"Chapter 8: Conclusion or Does Justice Have Anything to Do with Religion and the Practice of PeaceIndex

Atalia Omer is a Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame in the United States. She is also the Dermot T.J. Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peace Building at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at Harvard University's Religion and Public Life program. Omer was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2017. Among other publications, Omer is the author of When Peace is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice (2015) and Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians (2019). She is also a co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding (Oxford, 2015).

In Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding, Atalia Omer sounds a stunning and urgent call for us to recognize that current approaches to the integration and bureaucratization of religion in peacebuilding and development work can actually serve to denude religion of the prophetic impulse to justice, thereby reinscribing the very relations of power it seeks to disrupt. This book represents not only a significant academic advance in decolonial understandings of religion, but also a timely and powerfully counterintuitive warning to practitioners.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and frequently Used non-English WordsIntroductionChapter 1: Historical Background and Colonial AfterlivesChapter 2: "Sisyphean" GovernanceChapter 3: Doing ReligionChapter 4: Survival Piety: A Preferential Option for the Poor?Chapter 5: Religion and "Soft" Security: Countermessaging and SurveillanceChapter 6: "Religious" Resiliency and "Soft" Security Chapter 7: Un-Revolutionary Decolonial Love: The Spirituality of Just "Getting Alone"Chapter 8: Conclusion or Does Justice Have Anything to Do with Religion and the Practice of PeaceIndex

Atalia Omer is a Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame in the United States. She is also the Dermot T.J. Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peace Building at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at Harvard University's Religion and Public Life program. Omer was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2017. Among other publications, Omer is the author of When Peace is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice (2015) and Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians (2019). She is also a co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding (Oxford, 2015).

In Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding, Atalia Omer sounds a stunning and urgent call for us to recognize that current approaches to the integration and bureaucratization of religion in peacebuilding and development work can actually serve to denude religion of the prophetic impulse to justice, thereby reinscribing the very relations of power it seeks to disrupt. This book represents not only a significant academic advance in decolonial understandings of religion, but also a timely and powerfully counterintuitive warning to practitioners.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and frequently Used non-English WordsIntroductionChapter 1: Historical Background and Colonial AfterlivesChapter 2: "Sisyphean" GovernanceChapter 3: Doing ReligionChapter 4: Survival Piety: A Preferential Option for the Poor?Chapter 5: Religion and "Soft" Security: Countermessaging and SurveillanceChapter 6: "Religious" Resiliency and "Soft" Security Chapter 7: Un-Revolutionary Decolonial Love: The Spirituality of Just "Getting Alone"Chapter 8: Conclusion or Does Justice Have Anything to Do with Religion and the Practice of PeaceIndex