Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2013]
• ©2012

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sharma, Arvind.
• Khanna, Madhu.

Description

xiii, 256 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Religions > Congresses
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Influence > Congresses
• Religions > Influence > Congresses
• Asia > Congresses

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 13-9193

ISBN

• 9780313378966 (hardcopy : alk. paper)
• 0313378967 (hardcopy : alk. paper)
• 0313378975 (ebook)
• 9780313378973 (ebook)
• 9780313378973 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012041181

OCLC

756577016

Title

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

Publisher

Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2012

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Sharma, Arvind.

Khanna, Madhu.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-9193