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Author : Hermann Häring
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 3825841685
Pages : 150 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (584 downloads)
Download Faith in God in a multicultural and secularized society in PDF Full Online Free by Hermann Häring and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pascal, Ana-Maria
Publisher : IGI Global
Release Date : 2016-12-21
ISBN 10 : 9781522519560
Pages : 397 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (956 downloads)
Download Multiculturalism and the Convergence of Faith and Practical Wisdom in Modern Society in PDF Full Online Free by Pascal, Ana-Maria and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is considered by many to be something of the past, but it has a lasting hold in society and influences people across many cultures. This integration of spirituality causes numerous impacts across various aspects of modern life. Multiculturalism and the Convergence of Faith and Practical Wisdom in Modern Society is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the cultural, sociological, economic, and philosophical effects of religion on modern society and human behavior. Featuring extensive coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such as social reforms, national identity, and existential spirituality, this publication is ideally designed for theoreticians, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, advanced-level students and sociologists.
Author : Vinoth Ramachandra
Publisher : IVP Academic
Release Date : 2000-08-28
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015050301145
Pages : 200 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Faiths in Conflict? in PDF Full Online Free by Vinoth Ramachandra and published by IVP Academic. This book was released on 2000-08-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating and ground-breaking study, Vinoth Ramachandra explores the complex nature of conflict among the major world religions of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity, and also between them and the rising tide of secularism.
Author : Carl Sterkens
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2001
ISBN 10 : 9004123806
Pages : 300 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (412 downloads)
Download Interreligious Learning in PDF Full Online Free by Carl Sterkens and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing plurality of religions and world-views in western society has major implications for religious communication in both public and private settings. This study is an important step in an exploration of the consequences of this religious plurality for religious education in primary education. The chief concern of this study is the following question: To what extent is a pedagogic model in which pupils are encouraged to participate in an interreligious dialogue adequate for coping with this religious plurality? To address this question, the author discusses the following research questions: what are the cognitive, the affective and the attitudinal effects of the interreligious model for religious education, and can this model be legitimised? These questions are considered in the context of a discussion of the meaning of religion and an elaboration of the aim of religious education within the context of a secularized and multicultural society.
Author : R. James Tasker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-08-31
ISBN 10 : 9781666703245
Pages : 154 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (324 downloads)
Download Nations Are God’s Idea in PDF Full Online Free by R. James Tasker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nation sovereignty, an integral part of God's plan of protection and well-being for people within secure sovereign borders, is being assaulted all over the Western world. Nations Are God's Idea exposes the assaulting forces: well-funded, well-positioned ideological agitators and their deceived, willing accomplices. Manipulating and weaponizing every area of concern--climate, environment, gender, immigration, property, poverty, race--and using every cultural outlet to advantage, the agitators seek to divide, overwhelm, and conquer. Where is God in all this? What is he doing? What is he calling his church to do? God is not silent! He is active! Speaking truth to the human condition and to every human concern, he has strategically positioned his people in the exact places of his choosing and authorized them to act in his name, with his power, for a time such as this. Nations Are God's Idea reveals God's perspective on all the major issues and shows biblical ways his people and all people of goodwill can counter, neutralize, and defeat the insanity engulfing Western nations today. The only question: Will people engage in the battle, or will they remain silent? Time will tell. Time is short.
Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2005-06-01
ISBN 10 : 9781725214187
Pages : 196 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (418 downloads)
Download Faith and Power in PDF Full Online Free by Lesslie Newbigin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The issue . . . in the multicultural millennium is not so much the 'Islamization' of a once-Christian culture as the emergence, with state collusion, of discrete territories where vastly different norms prevail, shut off and resentful, a breeding ground for ferment and a target for hostility." In the aftermath of the London suicide bombings, this unusual book seems more prophetic than ever. Begun six years before 9/11, it examined the roots of political Islam and its offshoots in Britain. In describing the indifference of policy makers and government officials to religion, it warned of extremism taking root among disaffected young Muslims -- and offered a vision of hope tempered with realism that might have helped avert tragedy had it been more widely heeded. The book's timely republication offers another -- and a way out of it. Lamin Sanneh, himself a former Muslim, explores the history of Islam's always controversial accommodations with the West. Jenny Taylor's debut engages contribution critically at the grassroots level, looking in detail at Islam in Britain, its mission and tactics, and the State's inadequate response to them. "Neglect would appear to have been government policy." Lesslie Newbigin describes the loss of a sense of direction in the West as bankrupt secular ideologies confront fundamentalism with politically correct platitudes or coercive legislation that is destroying the West's historic freedoms. All three authors call for a radical Christian critique to replace the false and evidently failed policies of neutrality of the State.
Author : Augie Fleras
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2021-07-26
ISBN 10 : 9789004466562
Pages : 414 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (656 downloads)
Download Canadian Multiculturalism @50 in PDF Full Online Free by Augie Fleras and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Multiculturalism @50 offers a critically-informed overview of Canada’s official multiculturalism against a half-century of successes and failures, benefits and costs, contradictions and consensus, and criticism and praise. Admittedly, not a perfect governance model, but one demonstrably better than other models.
Author : Varun Uberoi
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-02-28
ISBN 10 : 9781474401913
Pages : 400 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (191 downloads)
Download Multiculturalism Rethought in PDF Full Online Free by Varun Uberoi and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the leading theorists of multiculturalism revisit aspects of Parekh's work both to underline its continuing importance and the ongoing vitality of multiculturalist theory.
Author : Douglas Farrow
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 0773528342
Pages : 228 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (352 downloads)
Download Recognizing Religion in a Secular Society in PDF Full Online Free by Douglas Farrow and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting aside popular myths about secularism, this volume studies the perspectives of law, politics, religion, morality, and bioethics, reconfiguring the debate about religion and public life.
Author : Gabriele Marranci
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-09-08
ISBN 10 : 9789048133628
Pages : 264 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (362 downloads)
Download Muslim Societies and the Challenge of Secularization: An Interdisciplinary Approach in PDF Full Online Free by Gabriele Marranci and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from various disciplines worked together to present the first interdisciplinary book to address the issue of Islam, secularism and globalization. The book has a clear structure which represents its interdisciplinary approach: the first section addresses the philosophical and historical discussion about Islam and secularism; the second section discusses the topic from an ethnographical and social anthropological viewpoint; and the final section addresses Islam, secularism and globalization from a political viewpoint. This unique collection not only offers innovative research and new material, it also provides empirical examples and theoretical debates, and could therefore also be used as a textbook for courses on Islam, globalization, anthropology, politics, sociology and law.
Author : Jesse L. Jackson Jr.
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2021-12-06
ISBN 10 : 9781665715263
Pages : 308 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (526 downloads)
Download The Finger of God in PDF Full Online Free by Jesse L. Jackson Jr. and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let me offer an early disclaimer. I know exactly who the Founders were. I know exactly the crimes against humanity that they were responsible for and those they inherited and were not responsible for. I do not spend time extolling the virtues of Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Adams, Mr. Franklin, and Mr. Madison. Nothing in this work or in my experiment (my life’s work) can change the fact or alter the history of the debasement of humanity that preceded the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Constitution (1787), and the Bill of Rights (1791) they were a part of and the obvious fact that the major accomplishment of the Founders’ theories about self-government did not apply to African Americans and Native Americans, women, and specifically Black women in their thinking. Still, there exists in their theological imagination infinite hope for their experiment. This work seeks to identify the evidence that shows and suggests that some of them were aware of a grand architectural experiment and design for the nation and its future. Every cracked, broken, and imperfect vessel can be used to bring forward hope. I am a personal witness to this fact of human existence.
Author : Sanjit Chakraborty
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-12-18
ISBN 10 : 9789811972492
Pages : 257 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (249 downloads)
Download Living without God: A Multicultural Spectrum of Atheism in PDF Full Online Free by Sanjit Chakraborty and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the intricate issue of approaching atheism—methodologically as well as conceptually—from the perspective of cultural pluralism. What does ‘atheism’ mean in different cultural contexts? Can this term be applied appropriately to different religious discourses which conceptualize God/gods/Goddess/goddesses (and also godlessness) in hugely divergent ways? Is my ‘God’ the same as yours? If not, then how can your atheism be the same as mine? In other words, this volume raises the question: Is it not high time that we proposed a comparative study of atheism(s) alongside that of religions, rather than believing that atheism is centered in the ‘Western’ experience? Apart from answering these questions, the book highlights the much-needed focus on the philosophical negotiations between atheism, theism and agnosticism. The fine chapters collected here present pluralist negotiations with the notion of atheism and its ethical, theological, literary and scientific corollaries. Previously published in Sophia Volume 60, issue 3, September 2021 Chapters “Religious Conversion and Loss of Faith: Cases of Personal Paradigm Shift?” and “On Being an Infidel” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2005-06-01
ISBN 10 : 9781597522281
Pages : 196 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (228 downloads)
Download Faith and Power in PDF Full Online Free by Lesslie Newbigin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The issue . . . in the multicultural millennium is not so much the 'Islamization' of a once-Christian culture as the emergence, with state collusion, of discrete territories where vastly different norms prevail, shut off and resentful, a breeding ground for ferment and a target for hostility." In the aftermath of the London suicide bombings, this unusual book seems more prophetic than ever. Begun six years before 9/11, it examined the roots of political Islam and its offshoots in Britain. In describing the indifference of policy makers and government officials to religion, it warned of extremism taking root among disaffected young Muslims -- and offered a vision of hope tempered with realism that might have helped avert tragedy had it been more widely heeded. The book's timely republication offers another -- and a way out of it. Lamin Sanneh, himself a former Muslim, explores the history of Islam's always controversial accommodations with the West. Jenny Taylor's debut engages contribution critically at the grassroots level, looking in detail at Islam in Britain, its mission and tactics, and the State's inadequate response to them. "Neglect would appear to have been government policy." Lesslie Newbigin describes the loss of a sense of direction in the West as bankrupt secular ideologies confront fundamentalism with politically correct platitudes or coercive legislation that is destroying the West's historic freedoms. All three authors call for a radical Christian critique to replace the false and evidently failed policies of neutrality of the State.
Author : Catherine Shelley
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2017-03-24
ISBN 10 : 9783319467115
Pages : 338 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (711 downloads)
Download Ethical Exploration in a Multifaith Society in PDF Full Online Free by Catherine Shelley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the theory and application of ethics for a multifaith society. Much ethics taught in the UK has been dominated by Christian ethics, their relation to secularism and by the Enlightenment’s reaction against theology as a basis for ethical thought. In contrast to these perspectives this book brings secular and theological ethics into dialogue, considering the degree to which secular ethics has common roots with theological perspectives from various traditions. The book assesses the application of ethical and theological principles in today’s multifaith society. Aiming to enhance ethical understanding and awareness across divergent worldviews, identifying at what points divergence does occur, the author examines topics such as reason and ethics in theology, natural law, utilitarianism and deontology and differences of approach to interpreting religious scriptures. The focus on ethical methods is illustrated through topical concerns in religion and ethics, for example sexuality, marriage and education and religion in relation to global ethics and human rights.
Author : David Novak
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-29
ISBN 10 : 1589014669
Pages : 220 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (91 downloads)
Download The Sanctity of Human Life in PDF Full Online Free by David Novak and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heated debates are not unusual when confronting tough medical issues where it seems that moral and religious perspectives often erupt in conflict with philosophical or political positions. In The Sanctity of Human Life, Jewish theologian David Novak acknowledges that it is impossible not to take into account the theological view of human life, but the challenge is how to present the religious perspective to nonreligious people. In doing so, he shows that the two positions—the theological and the philosophical—aren't as far apart as they may seem. Novak digs deep into Jewish scripture and tradition to find guidance for assessing three contemporary controversies in medicine and public policy: the use of embryos to derive stem cells for research, socialized medicine, and physician-assisted suicide. Beginning with thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Nietsche, and drawing on great Jewish figures in history—Maimonides, Rashi, and various commentators on the Torah (written law) and the Mishnah (oral law)—Novak speaks brilliantly to these modern moral dilemmas. The Sanctity of Human Life weaves a rich and sophisticated tapestry of evidence to conclude that the Jewish understanding of the human being as sacred, as the image of God, is in fact compatible with philosophical claims about the rights of the human person—especially the right to life—and can be made intelligible to secular culture. Thus, according to Novak, the use of stem cells from embryos is morally unacceptable; the sanctity of the human person, and not capitalist or socialist approaches, should drive our understanding of national health care; and physician-assisted suicide violates humankind's fundamental responsibility for caring for one another. Novak's erudite argument and rigorous scholarship will appeal to all scholars and students engaged in the work of theology and bioethics.
Author : Justo L. González
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Release Date : 1996-04-01
ISBN 10 : 9781426738739
Pages : 83 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (873 downloads)
Download Alabadle! in PDF Full Online Free by Justo L. González and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By looking at the wide variety of Hispanic Christian worship that exists within the Hispanic community, Alabadle! highlights the cultural, generational, and denominational elements that comprise the spectrum of Hispanic worship. Justo L. Gonzalez and seven other contributors provide an insightful look into the variety of worship styles that exist among numerous church traditions including Assemblies of God, United Methodist, Catholic, American Baptist, Presbyterian, and Disciples of Christ. And yet, in the midst of this variety, is a common thread of excitement - about worship and about the gospel! Anyone interested in exploring worship, music, and liturgy styles from a particular Hispanic perspective will find Alabadle! a valuable learning tool.
Author : W. Jay Moon
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Release Date : 2019-09-01
ISBN 10 : 9781645081791
Pages : 269 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (179 downloads)
Download Against the Tide: in PDF Full Online Free by W. Jay Moon and published by William Carey Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With increased globalization and modernization reaching into the furthest corners of the earth also comes the influence of secularization. These three tides of influence impact traditional religious beliefs, practices, and institutions in significant ways. Some modernizing societies see religion on the decline, while others find it thriving in surprising ways. This collection of essays presents the opportunities and the challenges of secularization for the mission of the Church, with hopeful signs and reassurance that God is still at work in a secularizing world. Readers will find both analysis and guidance that will assist the Church in an informed, missional engagement with secularization in a variety of contexts—starting with North America, then Europe, Asia, and Africa. Each local church and mission organization must discern the appropriate missional response for evangelism, discipleship, congregational life, and social involvement. To be Against the Tide means regaining your voice, as a church on mission, informed by your context and inspired by the responses of others in theirs.
