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Whose holy ground?

From H-Net, a review of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Course of History: Exchange and Conflicts. Must civilizations clash? Barry Gewen reviews Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation by Daniel Philpott. From National Catholic Register, “true Christianity is a persecuted Christianity”: An interview with Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil in northern Iraq. From Christian Century, the clash that wasn’t: Somehow, newspapers never publish banner headlines announcing "World's Largest Muslim State Fails to Persecute Christians"; and whose holy ground? If a given sacred site was once pagan, then Christian, then Muslim, then again Christian, the most painless solution would seem to be to accept present realities. From Changing Lenses, an article on Muslims in a “Judeo-Christian culture”. An interview with Robert F. Shedinger, author of Was Jesus a Muslim?: Questioning Categories in the Study of Religion. Entitled Christian Syndrome: Singing “Our God Is Greater” might make God seem less great.