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The Wiley-Blackwell companion to religion and social justice
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
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Part I. Major world religions. Buddhism : historical setting / Mavis Fenn
Buddhism : contemporary expressions / Steven Emmanuel
Christianity : historical setting / Stanley M. Burgess
Christianity : contemporary expressions / Curtiss Paul DeYoung
Confucianism : historical setting / Joseph Chan
Confucianism : contemporary expressions / Stephen C. Angle
Hinduism : historical setting : O.P. Dwivedi
Hinduism : contemporary expressions / Anita Singh
Islam : historical setting / Hussam S. Timani
Islam : contemporary expressions / Erin E. Stiles
Judaism : historical setting / Moshe Hellinger
Judaism : contemporary expressions / Eliezer Segal
Part II. Religious movements and themes. Bahá'í faith / Christopher Buck
The quest for justice in revival, a Creole religion in Jamaica / William Wedenoja
The Muhammadiyah : a Muslim modernist organization in contemporary Indonesia / Florian Pohl
The role of the chief in Asante society / Yaw Adu-Gyamfi
Tibetan monastics and social justice / Derek F. Maher
Sangha and society / Hiroko Kawanami
G'meelut Chasadim (deeds of kindness) / W.E. Nunnally
Hospitality / Ana María Pineda
Zakat : faith and giving in Muslim contexts / Azim Nanji
Ecumenical and interreligious dialogue / Barbara Brown Zikmund
Part III. Indigenous people. Africa : religion and social justice among the Diola of Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau / Robert M. Baum
Australia : religion and social justice in a continent of hunter-gatherers / Robert Tonkinson
Central America : a god for the poor : folk Catholicism and social justice among the Yucatec Maya / Christine A. Kray
Europe : the Roma people of Romania / Sorin Gog and Maria Roth
Middle East : the Kurds : religion and social justice of a stateless nation / Charles G. MacDonald
New Zealand : the Māori people / Rawinia Higgins
North America : Ojibwe culture / Gregory O. Gagnon
Southeran Asia : the Gonds of India : a search for identity and justice / Sushma Yadav
Part IV. Social justice issues. Colonialism / Brigid M. Sackey
Abundant life or abundant poverty? : the challenge for African Christianity / T. John Padwick
AIDS, religion, and the politics of social justice in Sub-Saharan Africa / Afe Adogame
Religion, civil rights, and social justice / Paul Harvey
Human rights : the South African experience / Glenda Wildschut
The "double-conscious" nature of American evangelicalism's struggle over civil rights during the progressive era / L.B. Gallien, Jr.
Gender and sexuality in the context of religion and social justice / Mary E. Hunt
Beginning of life / Andrew Lustig
Death and dying / Courtney S. Campbell
Religion's influence on social justice practices relating to those with disabilities / Ruth Vassar Burgess
Ecology and the environment / Laurel Kearns
Christianity and nonviolent resistance / Celia Cook-Huffman
Building peace in the pursuit of social justice / Mohammed Abu-Nimer.
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9781405195478
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