1st Edition

Pope Francis Journeys of a Peacemaker

By Mario I. Aguilar Copyright 2022
102 Pages
by Routledge India

102 Pages
by Routledge India

102 Pages
by Routledge India

This volume is about Pope Francis, the diplomat. In his eight years of pontificate, Pope Francis as a peacemaker has propagated the ideas of human and divine cooperation to build a global human fraternity through his journeys outside the Vatican. This book discusses his endeavours to connect and develop a common peaceful international order between countries, faith communities, and even... Read more

Introduction 1. An Interfaith Journey 2. From Auschwitz to Hiroshima 3. International Mediations 4. Peace and the Care of the Planet 5. Towards A Shared Humanity

Biography

Mario I. Aguilar is Professor of Religion and Politics at the School of Divinity, St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom. A few of his recent publications include Church, Liberation and World Religions: Towards a ChristianBuddhist Dialogue (2012); Pope Francis: His Life and Thought (2014); Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves, and Sacred Rivers: ChristianHindu Monastic Dialogue in India 1950–1993 (2016); The Way of the Hermit: Interfaith Encounters in Silence and Prayer (2017); and Interreligious Dialogue and the Partition of India: Hindus and Muslims in Dialogue about Violence and Forced Migration (2018). His research interests include the study of religion; religion in the contemporary world; theology in Latin America and Africa; contextual theology; biblical studies and anthropology; Islam in Africa; the history of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism; Christian–Buddhist dialogue; Hinduism, particularly monasticism in India; Christian–Hindu dialogue; and Hindu texts.