Does anyone know how to end religious violence?

Confronting Religious Violence
Edited by Richard A Burridge and Jonathan Sacks
SCM Press, 280pp, £25/$29.95

How do you solve a problem like religious violence? Assembling a team of academics (however eminent) to toss around ideas about recasting and revisiting age-old tales of sibling rivalry between the great faiths might seem like a rather meek and meagre approach. But as Jonathan Sacks argues here, the troubles all began with the stories we told about each other, so perhaps a forceful counter-narrative might just do the trick. As another contributor puts it, we might place less blame on the stories and more on our “unsophisticated hermeneutics”.