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Dr Chris Hewer comes from a background in Christian theology, education, Islamic studies and inter-faith studies and has worked in the field....
Dr Chris Hewerith (Christian-Muslim scholar)
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The world has seen its fair share of religious violence over the years; what do you identify as the main obstacles to peaceful co-existence of the adherents of different religions?
We need to divide this question into two parts: there are causes between peoples that wear religion like a flag, as an identifying marker, but the religion itself has nothing to do with the causes of the tension, and then there are tensions that arise out of differences of religious beliefs and practices.
The first group, those without religious cause, are by far the most common in my judgement.
The causes could be economic, political, cultural or territorial.
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There are many different group identities: for example, based on language, ethnicity, race, tribe, skin colour and so on. Sometimes these differences take on a religious colouring and so they are reported as religious tensions.
If we take two examples: Chri