Queen Noor of Jordan
“Religicide offers a visionary and pragmatic roadmap to curb religiously motivated violence. The authors transcend conventional foreign policy wisdom by proposing unprecedented engagement of religious leaders and civil society to cultivate peace, justice, and healing for the communities most at risk.
Sir Simon Schama
This is a timely and richly informed reminder of the central place that religious and cultural conflict has in our contemporary world. It is also a reminder of how religion can be misused to attack the liberal secularism upon which we depend to protect our human rights.
Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein
This timely book offers an opportunity for policymakers, activists, and diverse religious leaders to dive deeper into the underlying causes of anti-religious violence. Georgette Bennett and Jerry White call for dynamic, cross-border, cross-sector collaboration to put an end to religicide—heretofore unrecognized as a distinct crime under international law.
Reza Aslan
Religicide is a new word for an old problem. Nevertheless, we are witnessing acts of violence perpetrated against religious minorities at a scale not seen in centuries. The authors of this indispensable volume have not only documented these crimes, they have given the victims a voice and offered some measure of hope for the world’s most vulnerable religious communities. This is a timely and invaluable treatise.
David F. Ford OBE
How can our conflicted, crisis-plagued world, where over 80 percent of people identify with some religion, have a healthier, more peaceful future that respects our pluralist reality? The global achievements of Georgette Bennett and Jerry White in both religious and secular spheres give their answer unique credibility and weight. They not only offer a prophetic, realistic, and well-researched response to the ways in which religions are being horrendously and increasingly persecuted today; they also propose a practical solution that they themselves have begun to realize. Their vision of how a Global Covenant of Religions can in practice mobilize towards a better global future is the wisdom our century most needs.
Erin Burnett
Naming something gives us the power to fight it. That’s what White and Bennett do in their call to name the violence against religious groups like Yazidis, Uyghurs and Rohingya. And you’ll see why protecting religion is a moral imperative for the most secular of global power brokers.
Rabbi David Saperstein
As a lawyer and diplomat who has had to navigate myriad global violations of religious freedom, I deeply appreciate Bennett and White’s well-grounded book, which courageously tackles the alarmingly growing form of violence: Religicide. This sophisticated analysis identifies the gaps in human rights law and provides realistic correctives for those gaps. As has been the case time and again in these authors’ distinguished careers, Religicide pulls no punches in revealing the limits of the UN and other international bodies on which we depend for security. But its prescription for derailing anti-religious violence goes far beyond officialdom to tap the economic, political, and social resources, local and national, that can be mobilized in a comprehensive covenant to protect oppressed religious groups. Religicide is a must-read for diplomats, policy makers, religious leaders, scholars, and anyone who cares about human rights and religious freedom.
Midwest Book Review
A timely (given the rise of White Christian Nationalism and the increasing acts of anti-Semitism in the United States) contribution to personal, professional, community, and academic library Religious Intolerance/Persecution and Sociology of Religion collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.
