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The first intellectual history of interreligious dialogue, a
relatively new and significant dimension of human religiosity "[A]
fast-paced history of interreligious dialogue . . . For those new
to the field or interested in looking at where we've been and how
we came to be here, this book is a very good place to start."-Emily
Soloff, Christian Century In recent decades, organizations
committed to interreligious or interfaith dialogue have
proliferated, both in the Western and non-Western worlds. Why? How
so? And what exactly is interreligious dialogue? These are the
touchstone questions of this book, the first major history of
interreligious dialogue in the modern age. Thomas Albert Howard
narrates and analyzes several key turning points in the history of
interfaith dialogue before examining, in the conclusion, the
contemporary landscape. While many have theorized about and
practiced interreligious dialogue, few have attended carefully to
its past, connecting its emergence and spread with broader
developments in modern history. Interreligious dialogue-grasped in
light of careful, critical attention to its past-holds promise for
helping people of diverse faith backgrounds to foster cooperation
and knowledge of one another while contributing insight into
contemporary, global religious pluralism.
With a New Introduction by Wendell Berry The Soil and Health was
published in 1945, just before agricultural corporations surged to
global proportions. Sir Albert Howard's work is a major inspiration
to the growing organic and sustainable farming movement and a
thought-provoking reminder of a road not taken in developing
mainstream agriculture during the past half-century. The central
tenet of Howard's philosophy is that healthy soil, vegetation,
animals, and humans are connected and that undernourishment of soil
is the source of modern agricultural and health problems. In
Howard's estimation, heavy reliance on chemical fertilizers will
ultimately lead to widespread disease and destruction of vibrant
communities. As the environmental and social consequences of
industrial farming are being hotly debated, The Soil and Health
remains vital to understanding what is at stake in the battle
between chemical and organic farming. Sir Albert Howard
(1873-1947), founder of the organic farming movement, is the author
of several books, including An Agricultural Testament.
"The book should be required reading for every clinician, medical
student, social worker, and therapist who cares for injured
patients, and especially for those who care for burned patients. It
also should be made widely available in bookstores for anyone who
has empathy for the ill and infirm or curiosity about
burns."--"Journal of the American Medical Association" Although
medical advances have remarkably increased the survival rate of the
severely burned, such patients still encounter physical and
psychological pain and disability, disfigurement, and social
rejection. "Rising from the Flames" examines the experience of the
severely burned as survivors confront it, not just as a medical
event but as a human ordeal involving social, cultural,
psychological, and medical trauma. It discusses the causes of
burns, the physiology of injury and healing, the forms of isolation
burn patients endure, and the cultural meaning attached to burns
and burned persons.
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