Confronting Genocide is the first collection of essays by recognized scholars primarily in the field of religious studies to address this timely topic by examining not only theoretical understandings, the relationship between religion and genocide, but the tragedies of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Bosnia, Rwanda, and the Sudan as well.

Confronting Genocide is the first collection of essays by recognized scholars primarily in the field of religious studies to address this timely topic. In addition to theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Sudan from their own unique vantage point.