Religion: Source of Conflict or Resource for Peace?

Abstract

2008 fall Torbjørn Askevold lives in Oslo and studies in a master’s programme on “Religion and Society” at the University of Oslo. He is writing his thesis on a modern esoteric movement, the followers of “perennialist” thinking, a universialistic religious philosophy. He has a bachelor’s degree in Christian Theology and he recently was the chairperson of the Norwegian SCM. Torbjørn can be reached at askevold@gmail.com. Religion – Source of Conflict or Resource for Peace: Islamic pacifism