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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael D Palmer; Stanley M Burgess |
ISBN: | 9781405195478 1405195479 |
OCLC Number: | 757479065 |
Description: | xviii, 638 pages ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | Part I. Major world religions. Buddhism : historical setting / Mavis Fenn -- Buddhism : contemporary expressions / Steven Emmanuel -- Christianity : historical setting / Stanley M. Burgess -- Christianity : contemporary expressions / Curtiss Paul DeYoung -- Confucianism : historical setting / Joseph Chan -- Confucianism : contemporary expressions / Stephen C. Angle -- Hinduism : historical setting / O.P. Dwivedi -- Hinduism : contemporary expressions / Anita Singh -- Islam : historical setting / Hussam S. Timani -- Islam : contemporary expressions / Erin E. Stiles -- Judaism : historical setting / Moshe Hellinger -- Judaism : contemporary expressions / Eliezer Segal -- Part II. Religious movements and themes. Bahá'í faith / Christopher Buck -- The quest for justice in revival, a Creole religion in Jamaica / William Wedenoja -- The Muhammadiyah : a Muslim modernist organization in contemporary Indonesia / Florian Pohl -- The role of the chief in Asante society / Yaw Adu-Gyamfi -- Tibetan monastics and social justice / Derek F. Maher -- Sangha and society / Hiroko Kawanami -- G'meelut Chasadim (deeds of kindness) / W.E. Nunnally -- Hospitality / Ana María Pineda -- Zakat : faith and giving in Muslim contexts / Azim Nanji -- Ecumenical and interreligious dialogue / Barbara Brown Zikmund -- Part III. Indigenous people. Africa : religion and social justice among the Diola of Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau / Robert M. Baum -- Australia : religion and social justice in a continent of hunter-gatherers / Robert Tonkinson -- Central America : a god for the poor : folk Catholicism and social justice among the Yucatec Maya / Christine A. Kray -- Europe : the Roma people of Romania / Sorin Gog and Maria Roth -- Middle East : the Kurds : religion and social justice of a stateless nation / Charles G. MacDonald -- New Zealand : the Māori people / Rawinia Higgins -- North America : Ojibwe culture / Gregory O. Gagnon -- Southeran Asia : the Gonds of India : a search for identity and justice / Sushma Yadav -- Part IV. Social justice issues. Colonialism / Brigid M. Sackey -- Abundant life or abundant poverty? : the challenge for African Christianity / T. John Padwick -- AIDS, religion, and the politics of social justice in Sub-Saharan Africa / Afe Adogame -- Religion, civil rights, and social justice / Paul Harvey -- Human rights : the South African experience / Glenda Wildschut -- The "double-conscious" nature of American evangelicalism's struggle over civil rights during the progressive era / L.B. Gallien, Jr. -- Gender and sexuality in the context of religion and social justice / Mary E. Hunt -- Beginning of life / Andrew Lustig -- Death and dying / Courtney S. Campbell -- Religion's influence on social justice practices relating to those with disabilities / Ruth Vassar Burgess -- Ecology and the environment / Laurel Kearns -- Christianity and nonviolent resistance / Celia Cook-Huffman -- Building peace in the pursuit of social justice / Mohammed Abu-Nimer. |
Series Title: | Wiley-Blackwell companions to religion. |
Other Titles: | Companion to religion and social justice |
Responsibility: | edited by Michael D. Palmer and Stanley M. Burgess. |
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The articles work together to form a comprehensive whole and also to provide an encyclopedic handbook on the topic. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. (Choice, 1 December 2012) Read more...
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