Rethinking the Human (Studies in World Religions) - Softcover

 
9780945454441: Rethinking the Human (Studies in World Religions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0945454449 ISBN 13: 9780945454441
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

In our globalized world, differing conceptions of human nature and human values raise questions as to whether universal and partisan claims and perspectives can be reconciled, whether interreligious and intercultural conversations can help build human community, and whether a pluralistic ethos can transcend uncompromising notions as to what is true, good, and just. In this volume, world-class scholars from religious studies, the humanities, and the social sciences explore what it means to be human through a multiplicity of lives in time and place as different as fourth-century BCE China and the world of an Alzheimer patient today. Refusing the binary, these essays go beyond description to theories of aging and acceptance, ethics in caregiving, and the role of ritual in healing the inevitable divide between the human and the ideal.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

J. Michelle Molina is Assistant Professor of Catholic Studies at Northwestern University.

Donald K. Swearer is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions and Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Swarthmore College.

Michael J. Puett is Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University.

Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, where she teaches anthropology and women's studies.

Charles Hallisey is Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures at Harvard University.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0945454449
ISBN 13 
9780945454441
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
138
Herausgeber
Molina J. Michelle, Swearer Donald K.
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