Ultimately, Memory and Hope represents an important contribution to ongoing academic, interfaith, and public conversations about how religious communities can engage with painful memories of the past and attempt to negotiate more hopeful futures. This book could be effectively incorporated into graduate-level courses—and possibly upper-level undergraduate seminars—in disciplines such as religious studies, peace studies, sociology, psychology, and other areas.

Reading Religion

A great and often neglected human challenge is how to manage individual and collective memories of wrongs suffered and committed. World religions face the challenge, too, as violence has marked their internal and external relations. This book, unique in many ways, contains rich resources, drawn from diverse world religions, for figuring out how to remember rightly and hope boldly in a violent world.

Miroslav Volf, Yale University, author of The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World