Issues of War and Peace: Is Religion More of the Problem and What Are Mahatma Gandhi’s Insights?

When examining the history of religions and dominant religious narratives, institutions, cultures, ideologies, practices in contemporary world, one is tempted to conclude that religion more problem relating diverse issues war peace. Dominant cultures seem overwhelmingly be causes, express systemic structures, provide ideological, theological, philosophical justifications for violence, war, militarism, intolerance, divisiveness, oppression, injustice, hatred, environmental destruction, anti-democratic hierarchical domination. Can culture also a positive force nonviolence, peace, love, compassion, justice, tolerance mutual respect, harmonious sustainable relations with human nonhuman life, nature, cosmos? A universal, phenomenological, structural model dialectic sacred profane allows us understand how why has been such negative force, but it can develop as force. In regard, Mahatma Gandhi, best known most influential proponent offers complex insightful approach ways are significant today. What I propose show, by focusing on phenomenology insights full picture culture, peace complex, nuanced, contradictory, there contextualized openings understanding nonviolence