Author: Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434938794
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A Truce Between Scientists And Religionists: From The Perspective Of An Inventor
Author: Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434938794
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A Truce Between Scientists and Religionists
Author: George Dixon ChandleyPublisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 9781434911704
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Where Two Worlds Meet
Author: Sir William Earnshaw CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The World's Work
Author: World's Work
Author: The Origins of Religious Violence
Author: Nicholas F. GierPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 073919223X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Religiously motivated violence caused by the fusion of state and religion occurred in medieval Tibet and Bhutan and later in imperial Japan, but interfaith conflict also followed colonial incursions in India, Sri Lanka, and Burma. Before that time, there was a general premodern harmony among the resident religions of the latter countries, and only in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries did religiously motivated violence break out. While conflict caused by Hindu fundamentalists has been serious and widespread, a combination of medieval Tibetan Buddhists and modern Sri Lankan, Japanese, and Burmese Buddhists has caused the most violence among the Asian religions. However, the Chinese Taiping Christians have the world record for the number of religious killings by one single sect. A theoretical investigation reveals that specific aspects of the Abrahamic religions—an insistence on the purity of revelation, a deity who intervenes in history, but one who still is primarily transcendent—may be primary causes of religious conflict. Only one factor—a mystical monism not favored in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—was the basis of a distinctively Japanese Buddhist call for individuals to identify totally with the emperor and to wage war on behalf of a divine ruler. The Origins of Religious Violence: An Asian Perspective uses a methodological heuristic of premodern, modern, and constructive postmodern forms of thought to analyze causes and offer solutions to religious violence.
The Invention of World Religions
Author: Tomoko MasuzawaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226509884
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculturalism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world religions" is actually a particular ethos, a pluralist ideology, a logic of classification, and a form of knowledge that has shaped the study of religion and infiltrated ordinary language. In this ambitious study, Tomoko Masuzawa examines the emergence of "world religions" in modern European thought. Devoting particular attention to the relation between the comparative study of language and the nascent science of religion, she demonstrates how new classifications of language and race caused Buddhism and Islam to gain special significance, as these religions came to be seen in opposing terms-Aryan on one hand and Semitic on the other. Masuzawa also explores the complex relation of "world religions" to Protestant theology, from the hierarchical ordering of religions typical of the Christian supremacists of the nineteenth century to the aspirations of early twentieth-century theologian Ernst Troeltsch, who embraced the pluralist logic of "world religions" and by so doing sought to reclaim the universalist destiny of European modernity.
Utopia: the Quest and the Crisis
Author: Dhupaty V. K. RaghavacharyuluPublisher:
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Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Technopoly
Author: Neil PostmanPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030779735X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transformation into a society that is shaped by technology—from the acclaimed author of Amusing Ourselves to Death. "A provocative book ... A tool for fighting back against the tools that run our lives." —Dallas Morning News The story of our society's transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it—with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth.
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