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Today's Woman in World Religions

This book examines how the women's movement is affecting traditional religions and civilizations throughout the world. It reviews cases of global impact in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Australian aboriginal religion. This volume completes the trilogy devoted to women in world religions, edited by Arvind Sharma. The second book in the series is entitled Religion and Women. The present work surveys the position of women in the religious traditions covered in the first volume of the trilogy, Women in World Religions, placing these traditions in contemporary context.

he watchword in both feminist and religious studies today is diversity. As
historians, anthropologists, ritualists, and even theologians have studied the
actual lives of religious women, they have found that race, class, historical
context, ...

An Adventure Into Discovery

As you read this book, you will enter upon an adventure which only until recently lay hopelessly buried in technical and scientific treatises. Professor Edwards dug deep into those writings and brought forth a thrilling, accurate, brilliantly clear account of the men who found the hidden treasures and pushed back the horizons of Biblical history. However, this book is not a travelogue, and recounts but few of the interesting experiences the tourist has had while traveling Bible lands. It is, rather, a collection of impressions gained at historical sites where Bible history was made, and of studies, undertaken at those sites, that illustrate Biblical statements, show how predictions made by prophets of old have been fulfilled, corroborates the veracity of the Biblical record, and informs our understanding of the future.

As you read this book, you will enter upon an adventure which only until recently lay hopelessly buried in technical and scientific treatises.

It's God We Ought to Crucify

Validity and Authority in Law

The form of this essay and its treatment of its theme are experimental. The theme is the problem of the pursuit of power via separation of the source of authority or interpreter of the law from the source of validity of the law (for example, the separation of the religious authorities from God). The

Handbook of Research on Development and Religion

With eighty percent of the world's population professing religious faith, religious belief is a common human characteristic. This fascinating and highly unique Handbook brings together state-of-the-art research on incorporating religion into development studies literature and research. The expert contributors illustrate that as religious identity is integral to a community's culture, exclusion of religious consideration will limit successful development interventions; it is therefore necessary to conflate religion and development to enhance efforts to improve the lives of the poor. Issues addressed include: key tenets, beliefs and histories of religions; religious response to development concerns (gender, environment, education, microfinance, humanitarian assistance); and the role of faith based organisations and missionaries in the wider development context. Practical case studies of countries across Africa, Eastern Europe and the Pacific (including Australia) underpin the research, providing evidence that the intersection between religion and development is neither new nor static. By way of conclusion, suggestions are prescribed for extensive further research in order to advance understanding of this nascent field. This path-breaking Handbook will prove a thought-provoking and stimulating reference tool for academics, researchers and students in international development, international relations, comparative religion and theology.

This chapter explores the role religion and religious organizations can play in
development in a post-disaster context. Special attention will be given to the
development efforts in Aceh, Indonesia, following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
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