Understanding World Religions: A Road Map for Justice and Peace - Hardcover

Smith, David Whitten; Burr, Elizabeth Geraldine

 
9781442226425: Understanding World Religions: A Road Map for Justice and Peace
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1442226420 ISBN 13: 9781442226425
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Understanding World Religions introduces students to major worldviews-including Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Native American, and Marxist-through the lens of justice and peace. The second edition has been updated and revised throughout.

After an introduction to key themes in studying world religion, chapters help students explore major traditions today. Each chapter takes a similar approach, examining several dimensions of each tradition-experiential and emotional, social and institutional, narrative or mythic, doctrinal and philosophical, practical and ritual, and ethical and legal. Chapters feature profiles of major peacemakers or groups to bring the traditions to life. Profiles range from Gandhi and Martin Luther King to Thich Nhat Hanh and Dorothy Day. Further chapters explore liberation theologies, active nonviolence, and just war theory.

The second edition features a broader framework than the first edition and includes new material on non-religious ethical norms, Islamophobia, colonial evangelization, religion in China, and an updated examination of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Understanding World Religions remains a powerful introduction to major worldviews with an emphasis on practical connections to peace and justice.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

David Whitten Smith is the founding director of the Justice and Peace Studies program at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Elizabeth Geraldine Burr teaches in the Ethnic and Religious Studies Department at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Verlag
Rowman & Littlefield
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1442226420
ISBN 13 
9781442226425
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
488
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