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Title: Understanding World Religions
Condition: New
EAN: 9781442226432
ISBN: 9781442226432
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 21/08/2014
Item Height: 227mm
Item Length: 154mm
Item Width: 26mm
Item Weight: 653g
Author: Elizabeth Geraldine Burr, David Whitten Smith
Language: English
Subtitle: A Road Map for Justice and Peace
ISBN-10: 1442226439
Description: 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.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Year: 2014

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