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- Book Title
- Understanding World Religions
- Publication Name
- Understanding World Religions : a Road Map for Justice and Peace
- Title
- Understanding World Religions
- Subtitle
- A Road Map for Justice and Peace
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1442226439
- EAN
- 9781442226432
- ISBN
- 9781442226432
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Genre
- Philosophy & Spirituality
- Release Date
- 21/08/2014
- Release Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 23.1 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Features
- Revised
- Number of Pages
- 488 Pages
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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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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1442226439
ISBN-13
9781442226432
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201670329
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Understanding World Religions : a Road Map for Justice and Peace
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
488 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bl80.3.S65 2014
Grade from
College Freshman
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Edition Number
2
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This second edition is an excellent book and a must-read for students interested in a full-scope overview of the competing worldviews--both religious and secular--that compete with one another in the current marketplace of ideas and ideologies. The book is beautifully written, expertly researched, and replete with helpful diagrams, lists of terms, and bibliography. Written from a humane and ethically nuanced perspective, the book demonstrates why a thoroughgoing and critical understanding of the animating worldviews that shape our era are crucial for a well-informed and engaged citizenry. Original and highly recommended, Along with very accessible descriptions of the various sets of beliefs, which the authors manage to deliver with a remarkable lack of bias, they also provide a very good bibliography that includes significant materials on comparative religion, peace work and justice issues. They also include a comprehensive glossary., Smith does a really good job of summarizing the major world religions, including Marxism, liberation theology, and views on just war and the Israel-Palestine conflict. This made for a good textbook., Finally a book on worldviews that provides an honest and comprehensive discussion of issues that are most critical to the very survival of religion and civilization. The book's focus on justice and peace as its guiding themes has greatly enhanced the value of studying world religions., This second edition is an excellent book and a must-read for students interested in a full-scope overview of the competing worldviews--both religious and secular--that compete with one another in the current marketplace of ideas and ideologies. The book is beautifully written, expertly researched, and replete with helpful diagrams, lists of terms, and bibliography. Written from a humane and ethically nuanced perspective, the book demonstrates why a thoroughgoing and critical understanding of the animating worldviews that shape our era are crucial for a well-informed and engaged citizenry. Original and highly recommended, David Whitten Smith and Elizabeth Geraldine Burr...are to be commended for writing a text covering many world religions and world views from the perspective of peace and justice....The book's attempt to introduce various religious and non-religious worldviews from a universal moral perspective is a worthy one....Understanding World Religions is a passionate and timely text., [This] book easily stands out as the most up-to-date, approachable, and comprehensive volume with its mission and with the necessary admittance in its preface and advertised description as being conceived and written from a normative, values-based perspective that invalidates impartiality and advances social action-in the form of writing-for peace., Unquestionably, we are teaching children/young adults who have grown up fearing and misunderstanding our Muslim sisters and brothers in the wake of 9/11. Understanding World Religions is a readable text that goes a little deeper with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. I, also, appreciate their goal of working toward justice, peace and understanding. In a sense, why else do we study the world's religions if not to grow respect for the "dignity of difference.", The strengths of the book are multi-fold: a robust introduction with the plan for each chapter, followed by extensive accounts of different world views with summary, key terms, discussion questions, notes and suggestions for further reading. The style of writing and choice of topics are absorbing and at the same time challenging to those who would delve further into the issues raised.... Understanding World Religions is an indispensable and rich resource for not only students of justice and peace studies but also for any reader who has an inclination towards the advancement of social justice, world peace and the enhancement of human welfare.
Table of Content
Preface Introduction 1: Hindu Worldviews 2: Buddhist Worldviews 3: Jewish Worldviews 4: Christian Worldviews 5: Muslim Worldviews 6: Native American Worldviews 7: Marxist Worldviews 8: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 9: Religious Social Teachings: Christian and Beyond 10: Liberation Theologies 11: Active Nonviolence 12: Just War Theory Glossary Bibliography
Copyright Date
2014
Topic
Ethics, Comparative Religion, Peace, Sociology of Religion
Lccn
2014-015014
Dewey Decimal
201/.7
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Religion, Social Science, Political Science
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