Asian Perspectives on the World's Religions After September 11

Herausgeber: Khanna, Madhu Ph. D.; Sharma, Arvind

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a unique perspective on September 11 and our world after this tragic event, sharing lessons from an Asian religious experience that can help heal a world troubled by religious conflicts and deepening divisions, and promote a positive global transformation. Existing literature regarding the events of September 11 and our world afterward has focused mostly on the West and the Middle East. Asian Perspectives on the World's Religions after September 11 extends this discussion to include Asia--a continent and culture far too important to be ignored in any assessment of the global impact of this event. The book is organized along the following themes, as they emerged post-September 11th: religion and civilizational dialogue; religion, conflict, and peace; religion and human rights; religion and ethics; religion and the arts; religion, hermeneutics, and literature; religion and gender; religion and ecology; and religion and globalization. Individuals who are studying or teaching political science, international relations, philosophy, ethics, Asian studies, or religious studies will find the text invaluable, while general readers will appreciate the largely unvoiced Asian perspective on this topic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9780313378966
• ISBN-10: 0313378967
• Artikelnr.: 34553182

Autorenporträt

Arvind Sharma, PhD, is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the faculty of religious studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Sharma is editor of Praeger's four-volume set The World's Religions after September 11. Madhu Khanna is professor of comparative religion at the Center for the Study of Comparative Religion and Civilizations at the Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India, and is also affiliated with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Arvind Sharma The Idea of Asia Madhu Khanna 1.
"Civilizational Dialogues" through Popular Frames Post 9/11 Anuradha Ghosh
2. Jainism: The Way to Lasting Peace through Pluralistic Understanding
Ashok Vohra 3. Tolerance in Early Buddhism: Ideation, Praxis, and Fault
Lines Ahmad Sohaib 4. Suffering as a Catalyst for Spiritual Development:
The Islamic Perspective I. H. Azad Faruqi 5. From the Cakravartin Ideal to
Realpolitik: Buddhism and Confucianism in the Premodern Chinese Context and
Its Implications for Contemporary Chinese Secular Policy toward Religion
Albert Welter 6. From Oriental Utopia to Business Ethics: Europe's Search
for New Socioeconomic Paradigms in Eastern Religions and Philosophies
Gerrit De Vylder 7. The South Asian Impact upon Traditional Malay Theater
Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof 8. Javanese Narrations of Ramayan.a and Mahabharata:
Products of a Peaceful Process of Integration Malini Saran 9. Multilingual
Scholarship in the Study of Religion Joseph T. O'Connell 10.
Politicization of Religion and Its Possible Impact on the Academic Study of
Religion in India Madhu Khanna 11. Human Rights in Cross-Cultural
Perspective Joseph Prabhu 12. The Concept of Religious Freedom Arvind
Sharma 13. Vietnam Central Highlands at the Crossroads: Globalization,
Development, Sustainability, and Cultural Identity Tran My-Van 14.
Religion as a Possible Impediment to Environmental Discourse Bidisha Kumar
and George James 15. Acculturation of the Tribals in North India during the
British Colonial Period: An Ethnographic Perspective Radha Madhav Bharadwaj
16. Ecological Cosmology in Hindu Tradition for the 21st Century Rana P. B.
Singh About the Editors and Contributors Index