The language of diversity : restoration toward peace and unity / edited by Mary Alice Trent ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Conference on Christianity, Culture, and Diversity in America, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Trent, Mary Alice.

Conference Name:

Conference on Christianity, Culture, and Diversity in America (2005-2006 : Tulsa, Okla.)

Conference on Christianity, Culture, and Diversity in America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and culture--Congresses.

Christianity and culture.

Ethnic relations--Congresses.

Ethnic relations.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.

Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Language of Diversity is an orchestrated effort of twenty-eight contributing authors, an editor, and three co-editors across the United States and Canada, and the stellar list includes bestselling authors, scholars, academicians, businessmen, theologi

Contents:

Part I: Efforts toward restoration and reconciliation among cultures. Introduction / Mary Alice Trent

Religious diversity and popular culture: a survey of the visions of religious diversity in Star Trek and the Di Vinci Code / Jeffrey S. Lamp

The Virgin of Guadalupe in religious and cultural contexts: warrior goddess or holy madonna? / Joann F. Allen

Reconciliation: truth telling as a means of addressing systematic racism in culture and the church / James Puglisi

The sanctity of life: learning to value every person as God does / David Gushee

Race, religion, and prejudice: an African diasporic overview / A. Ezekiel Olagoke

Social justice and peacemaking partnerships between Muslims and Christians: a Christian perspective / Christopher Van Gorder

Dwelling together: the power of community / Clifton Taulbert

Part II: Crossroads among Christianity, Islam, and Mormonism. Introduction / Mary Alice Trent

The Judeo-Christian concept of hesed as an essential element of restoration, peace, and unity / Lenore Mullican

Lessons from history (635 to 1050 AD) on restoring a better conversation between Christians and Muslims / Gregg Webb

When restoration fails: in the name of unity, Mormons ask Christians to accept a caricature of their true beliefs / James Spenser

Christianity over Islam / Reza Safa

150 years after the Mountain Meadows Massacre: a call for responsibility, restitution, and remorse from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints / Mary Migliore

Part III: Educational platforms for conversations on religion, race, and gender. Introduction / Mary Alice Trent

Accommodating religious diversity in education: the Christian quest for a via media in the Canadian context / M. Louise Cornell

Females in the Christian college presidency: a restoration based in the Mennonite peace tradition / Annyce Stone and Timothy Norton

The socialization of education: the issues of peace, unity, and restoration concerning the inclusion of black history in the American history curriculum / Tasha Goode

Cultural competence community health nursing education: a user-friendly instrument to assess professional development needs / Sherri Tapp and Sharon Ware

From hypocrisy to revelation: using Bartolome de las Casas to teach moral theology / Paul Vickery

The Academy's conception of truth: examining the tenets of Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity / Timothy Norton and Beverly M. Hedbert

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak: understanding racial diversity on a Christian campus / Alvin Edward Sanders, Jr.

Religion deconstructed in William Faulkner's Light in August: reading the dialect of Christianity in the margins of modernism / Phillip Davis

Tell them: the premise for African-American female children's literature / Althea Tait

"Shadows uplifted": gender and race perspectives in the works of Stowe and Harper / Lynn Alexander

Raising up credible leaders in the globally-cultural millennial age: six disciplines as modeled in the leadership of Jesus Christ / Samuel S. Hemby

Analyzing the diversity of anthologies: the influence of publishers on the American literary canon / Kay Meyers

A counselor's journal: interviews with five people from three different diverse populations / David Veach.

Notes:

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

"Special thanks to all who presented at the Conference on Christianity, Culture, and Diversity in America (CCCDA) in 2005 and 2006"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-19262-0

9786612192623

1-4438-0901-2

OCLC:

1183835279