The World's Religions: A Contemporary Reader - Softcover

Sharma, Arvind

 
9780800697464: The World's Religions: A Contemporary Reader
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0800697464 ISBN 13: 9780800697464
Verlag: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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This wide-ranging reader combines some of the best and most valuable contemporary perspectives from leading and significant writers, teachers, and thinkers who together address critical challenges and opportunities for the world's religions in a post 9/11 world. Edited by Arvind Sharma and organized by topic, the essays in this reader consider broad questions such as, What influence does religion have on contemporary life? Can religion destroy or preserve us? Could the world's religions join together as a force for good? The thematic arrangement of topics includes diverse religious perspectives on: pluralism, human rights, war, peace, globalization, science, spirituality and other topics. A special foreword by John Hick speaks to the value of this reader in broadening our needed understanding of religion.

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Arvind Sharma holds the Birks Chair of Comparative Religion at McGill University in Montreal, succeeding Wilfred Cantwell Smith. Having earned his PhD in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University in 1978, he was the first infinity Foundation Visiting Professor of Indic Studies at Harvard, Sharma has published over fifty books and five hundred articles in the fields of comparative religion, Hinduism, Indian philosophy and ethics, and the role of women in religion. Among his most noteworthy publications are Our Religions. The Seven World Religions Introduced by Preeminent Scholars from Each Tradition and The Study of Hinduism

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Verlag
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0800697464
ISBN 13 
9780800697464
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
390
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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