This volume examines patterns of coexistence and conflict amongst members of different religious communities. Based on multidisciplinary research, the authors consider in one comparative analytical framework the linkages between long periods of peaceful interaction, including shared religious space, and moments of violence. How does it happen that peoples who live peacefully intermingled for generations, and who even develop aspects of syncretism in their religious practices, turn on each other violently? Drawing on a range of ethnographic, historical and archaeological data, the chapters contain analysis of instances from Bosnia, Bulgaria, India, Mexico, Peru, Portugal and Turkey.
