Asian perspectives on the world's religions after September 11 / Arvind Sharma and Madhu Khanna, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharma, Arvind.

Khanna, Madhu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religions--Congresses.

Religions.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence--Congresses.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Religions--Influence--Congresses.

Asia--Congresses.

Asia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 256 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2013]

Contents:

Introduction / Arvind Sharma

The idea of Asia / Madhu Khanna

"Civilizational dialogues" through popular frames post 9/11 / Anuradha Ghosh

Jainism: the way to lasting peace through pluralistic understanding / Ashok Vohra

Tolerance in early Buddhism: ideation, praxis, and fault lines / Ahmad Sohaib

Suffering as a catalyst for spiritual development: the Islamic perspective / I.H. Azad Faruqi

From the cakravartin ideal to realpolitik: Buddhism and Confucianism in the premodern Chinese context and its implications for contemporary Chinese secular policy toward religion / Albert Welter

From oriental utopia to business ethics: Europe's search for new socioeconomic paradigms in Eastern religions and philosophies / Gerrit De Vylder

The South Asian impact upon traditional Malay theater / Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof

Javanese narrations of Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata: products of a peaceful process of integration / Malini Saran

Multilingual scholarship in the study of religion / Joseph T. O'Connell

Politicization of religion and its possible impact on the academic study of religion in India / Madhu Khanna

Human rights in cross-cultural perspective / Joseph Prabhu

The concept of religious freedom / Arvind Sharma

Vietnam Central Highlands at the crossroads: globalization, development, sustainability, and cultural identity / Tran My-Van

Religion as a possible impediment to environmental discourse / Bidisha Kumar and George James

Acculturation of the tribals in North India during the British colonial period: an ethnographic perspective / Radha Madhav Bharadwaj

Ecological cosmology in Hindu tradition for the 21st century / Rana P.B. Singh.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference held Sept. 11-15, 2006 in Montréal, Québec.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0313378967

9780313378966

0313378975

9780313378973

OCLC:

756577016

Publisher Number:

99956068485