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Called
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Anne Francis
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Passage to India
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Enrico Beltramini; Foreword by Leonard Fernando
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Although there is growing interest in the role of religion in
meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
Agenda 2030, very few studies have focused on the contributions of
interfaith networks. Most of the contemporary publications on
religion and development focus on single religions or faith-based
organizations. This volume addresses the lacuna in the available
scholarship by undertaking detailed analyses of how interfaith
networks in diverse African contexts contribute to development.
Chapters in this volume engage in theoretical debates on interfaith
networks and development, while describing concrete, fresh case
studies on how particular interfaith networks are contributing
towards the meeting of the SDGs in specific contexts. Thus, the
volume describes older and newer interfaith networks and analyses
their achievements and challenges. Contributors focus on SDGs that
include peacebuilding, gender, youth, the environment, as well as
overviews of interfaith initiatives in different African contexts.
This book is the first to critically analyze Buddhist-Muslim
relations in Theravada Buddhist majority states in South and
Southeast Asia. Asia is home to the largest population of Buddhists
and Muslims. In recent years, this interfaith communal living has
incurred conflicts, such as the ethnic-religious conflicts in
Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Experts from around the world
collaborate to provide a comprehensive look into religious
pluralism and religious violence. The book is divided into two
sections. The first section provides historical background to the
three countries with the largest Buddhist-Muslim relations. The
second section has chapters that focus on specific encounters
between Buddhists and Muslims, which includes anti-Buddhist
sentiments in Bangladesh, the role of gender in Muslim-Buddhist
relations and the rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Rohingya sentiments
in Myanmar. By exploring historical fluctuations over time-paying
particular attention to how state-formations condition
Muslim-Buddhist entanglements-the book shows the processual and
relational aspects of religious identity constructions and
Buddhist-Muslim interactions in Theravada Buddhist majority states.
This edited volume offers solutions on the challenges of religious
pluralisation from a European perspective. It gives special
attention to interreligious dialogue and interfaith relations as
specific means of dealing with plurality. In particular, the
contributors describe innovative scientific approaches and broad
political and social scopes of action for addressing the diversity
of beliefs, practices, and traditions. In total, more than 25
essays bring together interdisciplinary and international research
perspectives. The papers cover a wide thematic range. They
highlight how religious pluralisation effects such fields as
theology, politics, civil society, education, and
communication/media. The contributors not only illustrate academic
debates about religious diversity but they also look at the
political and social scope for dealing with such. Coverage spans
numerous countries, and beliefs, from Buddhism to Judaism. This
book features presentations from the Herrenhausen Conference on
"Religious Pluralisation - A Challenge for Modern Societies," held
in Hanover, Germany, October 2016. This insightful collection will
benefit students and researchers with an interest in religion and
laicism, interreligious dialogue, governance of religious
diversity, and religion in the public sphere.
Antisemitism is generally thought to derive from chimerical images
of Jews, who became the victims of these projections. Some
scholars, however, allege that the Jews' own conduct was the main
cause of the hatred directed toward them in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Olaf Blaschke takes up this provocative
question by considering the tensions between German Catholicism and
Judaism in the period of the "Kulturkampfe." Did Catholic
resentments merely construct "their" secular Jew? Or did their
antisemitism in fact derive from their perceptions of the conduct
of liberal Jewish "offenders" during a period of social stress?
Blaschke's deeper look at this crucial period of German history,
particularly as revealed in the Catholic and Jewish presses,
provides new and sometimes surprising insights.
Europe's formative encounter with its "others" is still widely
assumed to have come with its discovery of the peoples of the New
World. But, as Jonathan Boyarin argues, long before 1492 Christian
Europe imagined itself in distinction to the Jewish difference
within. The presence and image of Jews in Europe afforded the
Christian majority a foil against which it could refine and
maintain its own identity. In fundamental ways this experience,
along with the ongoing contest between Christianity and Islam,
shaped the rhetoric, attitudes, and policies of Christian
colonizers in the New World.
"The Unconverted Self" proposes that questions of difference
inside Christian Europe not only are inseparable from the painful
legacy of colonialism but also reveal Christian domination to be a
fragile construct. Boyarin compares the Christian efforts aimed
toward European Jews and toward indigenous peoples of the New
World, bringing into focus the intersection of colonial expansion
with the Inquisition and adding significant nuance to the entire
question of the colonial encounter.
Revealing the crucial tension between the Jews as "others
within" and the Indians as "others without," "The Unconverted Self"
is a major reassessment of early modern European identity.
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Growing UP PK
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Tabitha Bennett; Foreword by Shalondria Taylor
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