Asian Perspectives on the World's Religions after September 11
Ebook
This book offers a unique perspective on September 11 and our world after this tragic event, sharing lessons from an Asian religious experience that can help heal a world troubled by religious conflicts and deepening divisions, and promote a positive global transformation.
Existing literature regarding the events of September 11 and our world afterward has focused mostly on the West and the Middle East. Asian Perspectives on the World's Religions after September 11 extends this discussion to include Asia—a continent and culture far too important to be ignored in any assessment of the global impact of this event.
The book is organized along the following themes, as they emerged post-September 11th: religion and civilizational dialogue; religion, conflict, and peace; religion and human rights; religion and ethics; religion and the arts; religion, hermeneutics, and literature; religion and gender; religion and ecology; and religion and globalization. Individuals who are studying or teaching political science, international relations, philosophy, ethics, Asian studies, or religious studies will find the text invaluable, while general readers will appreciate the largely unvoiced Asian perspective on this topic.
This book offers a unique perspective on September 11 and our world after this tragic event, sharing lessons from an Asian religious experience that can help heal a world troubled by religious conflicts and deepening divisions, and promote a positive global transformation.
Introduction
Arvind Sharma
The Idea of Asia
Madhu Khanna
1. "Civilizational Dialogues" through Popular Frames Post 9/11
Anuradha Ghosh
2. Jainism: The Way to Lasting Peace through Pluralistic Understanding
Ashok Vohra
3. Tolerance in Early Buddhism: Ideation, Praxis, and Fault Lines
Ahmad Sohaib
4. Suffering as a Catalyst for Spiritual Development: The Islamic Perspective
I. H. Azad Faruqi
5. 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
6. From Oriental Utopia to Business Ethics: Europe's Search for New Socioeconomic Paradigms in Eastern Religions and Philosophies
Gerrit De Vylder
7. The South Asian Impact upon Traditional Malay Theater
Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof
8. Javanese Narrations of Ramayan.a and Mahabharata: Products of a Peaceful Process of Integration
Malini Saran
9. Multilingual Scholarship in the Study of Religion
Joseph T. O'Connell
10. Politicization of Religion and Its Possible Impact on the Academic Study of Religion in India
Madhu Khanna
11. Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Joseph Prabhu
12. The Concept of Religious Freedom
Arvind Sharma
13. Vietnam Central Highlands at the Crossroads: Globalization, Development, Sustainability, and Cultural Identity
Tran My-Van
14. Religion as a Possible Impediment to Environmental Discourse
Bidisha Kumar and George James
15. Acculturation of the Tribals in North India during the British Colonial Period: An Ethnographic Perspective
Radha Madhav Bharadwaj
16. Ecological Cosmology in Hindu Tradition for the 21st Century
Rana P. B. Singh
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
Sixteen papers cover several topics regarding Asian perspectives on the world's religions after September 11th. Individual topics include the Islamic perspective, Jainism, tolerance of early Buddhism, and the concept of religious freedom.
- Title: Asian Perspectives on the World's Religions after September 11
- Authors: Arvind Sharma, Madhu Khanna
- Publisher: Praeger
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBN: 9798216050247
- Resource ID: LLS:9798216050247
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-12T11:25:10Z
Arvind Sharma, PhD, is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the faculty of religious studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Sharma is editor of Praeger's four-volume set The World's Religions after September 11.
Madhu Khanna is professor of comparative religion at the Center for the Study of Comparative Religion and Civilizations at the Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India, and is also affiliated with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.