Religion in politics and society / edited by Michael Kelly and Lynn M. Messina.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : H.W. Wilson, 2002.
Description
ix, 206 p. : maps ; 26 cm.

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    Summary note
    Presents twenty-four periodical articles on religion's relationship to culture, political violence, ecology, and gender, as well as new religions and religious conversion.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-195) and index.
    Action note
    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • Part I. Religion and culture
    • Keeping the faith : freedom, and international affairs / Paul Marshall
    • Scholars get religion / Mark Clayton
    • Psychiatry, spirituality and religion / William R. Breakey
    • A city that echoes eternity [Jerusalem] / Kenneth L. Woodward
    • Pope John Paul II / R. Scott Apple-- Russian renewal / Michael Bourdeaux
    • A faith with many faces [Islam] / David R. Sands
    • Part II. Religion and political violence
    • Occidentalism / Avishai Margalit and Ian Buruma
    • Religion and the war against evil / Harvey Cox
    • Fundamentalism / R. Scott Appleand Martin E. Marty
    • Separated at birth / Leela Jacinto
    • Religious wars? : A short history of the Balkans / Paul Mojzes
    • Part III. New religions and religious conversion
    • Oh, gods! / Toby Lester
    • Falun Gong : what's behind the movements? / Christopher Wanjek
    • The church of the west [Mormonism]
    • Guatemala's new evangelists / Rachel Cobb
    • The expansion of Christianity : an interview with Andrew Walls
    • Part IV. Religion and ecology
    • Religion goes green : ecology joins theology / Linda Ashton
    • Science, religion, and ecology turn eastward / Michael J. Strada
    • Religion, modern secular culture, and ecology / George Rupp
    • Religion and gender. Thai monk blazes path for equality for women
    • Islam's female converts / Priya Malhotra
    • New fields and strict Judaism coexist / Nina Siegal
    • Reconciliation / Vanessa E. Jones.
    ISBN
    0824210123 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    ^^2002025889
    OCLC
    49530031
    RCP
    H - S
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