Leif-Hagen Seibert carries out a three-step praxeological analysis of empirical data from field
studies in the research project The ethos of religious peace builders that allows for novel
assessments of societal conjuncture (field theory) subjective meaning (habitus analysis) and
the mutual 'rules of engagement' of religious practice (the religious nomos). Over the course
of this three-step argument the sociological concept of religious credibility - i.e. the
determinants of religious legitimacy - gains more and more contours and facilitates the
reevaluation of risks and chances in a peace process where religion is a vector for both peace
and division.
