Religion Seeking Justice And Peace

Author : Chandra Muzaffar
Publisher : Penerbit USM
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Peace
ISBN : 9789674610913

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Religion Seeking Justice and Peace (Penerbit USM) by Chandra Muzaffar Pdf

Religion Seeking Justice and Peace not only highlights the values that the different religions share in their pursuit of justice and peace but also provides concrete examples of how individuals and institutions from different religious backgrounds have worked for justice and peach throughout history. The book also exposes the danger of religious extremism, religious exclusivism and other such negative traits to the struggle for justice and peace. It takes cognisance of the impact of the larger environment upon religious ideals and, at the same time, makes a plea for the application of universal values and principles embodied in the various religions to politics. Economics, culture and society. This is particularly important, some of the contributors argue, at a time like this when humanity is confronted with multiple global crises.

Author : Chandra Muzaffar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Peace
ISBN : OCLC:1162299107

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Religion Seeking Justice and Peace by Chandra Muzaffar Pdf

Author : David Whitten Smith,Elizabeth Geraldine Burr
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461666776

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Understanding World Religions by David Whitten Smith,Elizabeth Geraldine Burr Pdf

Understanding World Religions studies major worldviews in relation to justice and peace: Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Marxist, and Native American. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is given as a case study for how worldviews impact justice and peace. Further chapters explore Christian social teaching, liberation theologies, active nonviolence, and just war theory.

Author : Irfan A. Omar,Michael K. Duffey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118953426

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Peacemaking and the Challenge of Violence in World Religions by Irfan A. Omar,Michael K. Duffey Pdf

Written by top practitioner-scholars who bring a critical yet empathetic eye to the topic, this textbook provides a comprehensive look at peace and violence in seven world religions. Offers a clear and systematic narrative with coverage of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Native American religions Introduces a different religion and its sacred texts in each chapter; discusses ideas of peace, war, nonviolence, and permissible violence; recounts historical responses to violence; and highlights individuals within the tradition working toward peace and justice Examines concepts within their religious context for a better understanding of the values, motivations, and ethics involved Includes student-friendly pedagogical features, such as enriching end-of-chapter critiques by practitioners of other traditions, definitions of key terms, discussion questions, and further reading sections

Author : A Christian van Gorder
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227902004

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Islam, Peace and Social Justice by A Christian van Gorder Pdf

Islam, Peace and Social Justice examines the ways in which Islamic cultures have dealt with issues of social justice historically and culturally. With unwavering objectivity, the author helps readers of any faith to gain a nuanced and accurate understanding of the challenges that we face in contemporary multifaith engagements. Dr van Gorder offers a comprehensive and sympathetic Christian insight into Islam. The contentious issues of social justice that are encountered in this broad, yet intricate, studyinclude the concept of Jihad, poverty, political oppression, human rights, genocide, racism, sexual injustice, homophobia, and environmental degradation. The challenges are real and the problems are vast; partnerships and solutions must be found - peopleof faith, Muslim, Jewish and Christian, must find ways to work together to address these shared challenges. This work exposes misrepresentations and stereotypes about Islamic views of social justice that abound in Europe and North America. The author encourages a deeper appreciation of how themes of social justice resound through Islamic texts and have been expressed both in the contemporary and historical life of various and diverse Islamic communities worldwide.

Author : Lynn Neu
Publisher : Saint Mary's Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-16
Category : Christian education of teenagers
ISBN : 9780884894773

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Seeking Justice by Lynn Neu Pdf

Seeking Justice focuses on human dignity, respect, compassion, and responsibility for creation while connecting these themes to the lives of students. Grounded in the Scriptures and in Catholic social teaching, this course helps young people face justice and peace issues in ways appropriate to their age. This student booklet is designed to support the active-learning strategies in its companion teaching guide.

Author : Georges Tamer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110682021

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The Concept of Peace in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Georges Tamer Pdf

The eighth volume of the series "Key Concepts of Interreligious Discourses" investigates the roots of the concept of "peace" in Judaism, Christianity and Islam and its relevance for the present time. Facing present violent conflicts waged and justified by religious ideas or reasons, peace building prevails in current debates about religion and peace. Here the central question is: How may traditional sources in religions help to put down the weapons and create a society in which everyone can live safely without hostilities and the threat of violence? When we take the Sacred Scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam into consideration it becomes obvious that the term "peace" and its equivalents in Hebrew, Greek and Arabic describe, at first, an ideal state based on the "love" / "mercy" of God to his creation. It is a divine gift that brings inward peace to the individuum and outer peace resting upon justice and equality. One main task of Jews, Christian and Muslims in the history is to find out how to bring down this transcendent ideal upon earth. The volume presents the concept of "peace" in its different aspects as anchored in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It unfolds commonalities and differences between the three monotheistic religions as well as the manifold discourses about peace within these three traditions. The book offers fundamental knowledge about the specific understanding of peace in each one of these traditions, their interdependencies and their relationship to secular world views.

Author : Harcourt Religion Publishers
Publisher : Harcourt Religious Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 015901509X

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Justice and Peace by Harcourt Religion Publishers Pdf

Author : Anantanand Rambachan
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438454559

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A Hindu Theology of Liberation by Anantanand Rambachan Pdf

Discusses Hindu Advaita Ved?nta as a philosophy of social justice for the modern world. This expansive and accessible work provides an introduction to the Hindu tradition of Advaita Ved?nta and brings it into discussion with contemporary concerns. Advaita, the non-dual school of Indian philosophy and spirituality associated with ?a?kara, is often seen as “other-worldly,” regarding the world as an illusion. Anantanand Rambachan has played a central role in presenting a more authentic Advaita, one that reveals how Advaita is positive about the here and now. The first part of the book presents the hermeneutics and spirituality of Advaita, using textual sources, classical commentary, and modern scholarship. The book’s second section considers the implications of Advaita for ethical and social challenges: patriarchy, homophobia, ecological crisis, child abuse, and inequality. Rambachan establishes how Advaita’s non-dual understanding of reality provides the ground for social activism and the values that advocate for justice, dignity, and the equality of human beings. “Rambachan has written an original, creative, and provocative book that will assure that Hinduism has a greater voice in the general arena of interreligious dialogue.” — Paul F. Knitter, Union Theological Seminary “This is an important contribution to the advancement of constructive work in Hindu theology, comparative theology, and the study of South Asian religious traditions. It has the potential to revolutionize how scholars view Hinduism generally, and Advaita Ved?nta in particular.” — Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College

Author : Eli S. McCarthy
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781626167575

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A Just Peace Ethic Primer by Eli S. McCarthy Pdf

The just peace movement offers a critical shift in focus and imagination. Recognizing that all life is sacred and seeking peace through violence is unsustainable, the just peace approach turns our attention to rehumanization, participatory processes, nonviolent resistance, restorative justice, reconciliation, racial justice, and creative strategies of active nonviolence to build sustainable peace, transform conflict, and end cycles of violence. A Just Peace Ethic Primer illuminates a moral framework behind this praxis and proves its versatility in global contexts. With essays by a diverse group of scholars, A Just Peace Ethic Primer outlines the ethical, theological, and activist underpinnings of a just peace ethic.These essays also demonstrate and revise the norms of a just peace ethic through conflict cases involving US immigration, racial and environmental justice, and the death penalty, as well as gang violence in El Salvador, civil war in South Sudan, ISIS in Iraq, gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, women-led activism in the Philippines, and ethnic violence in Kenya. A Just Peace Ethic Primer exemplifies the ecumenical, interfaith, and multicultural aspects of a nonviolent approach to preventing and transforming violent conflict. Scholars, advocates, and activists working in politics, history, international law, philosophy, theology, and conflict resolution will find this resource vital for providing a fruitful framework and implementing a creative vision of sustainable peace.

Author : Thomas R. McFaul
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313087370

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The Future of Peace and Justice in the Global Village by Thomas R. McFaul Pdf

Many authors have written on the effect technology, economics, and politics have on globalization, but few have addressed the potential impact of world religions on the future direction of globalization. McFaul's fascinating book explores what others have not: the part the world's major religions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—will play in bringing either greater peace and justice or hatred and hostility to the global village. Will these religions, which exert the greatest amount of influence worldwide, be a force for good or ill in the emerging global village of the 21st century? This book answers that question and more. Covering the religions to which the majority of world's population adheres, it offers insight into the commonalities, differences, and potential for coming together to create peace to be found among the major faiths. The world's seven major religions are covered, and topics such as sexuality, ethics, violence, and the tension between secular and sacred arenas are discussed for each. McFaul argues that if the leaders and laity of these religions are able to find common ground, efforts toward peace and justice in the global village can be more effective and lasting. If they accentuate their differences, he suggests, they will only produce more hatred and hostility.

Author : William Bontrager J.D.
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973652205

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Seeking Peace & Justice by William Bontrager J.D. Pdf

“If inner peace and a sense of justice come only from God [Proverbs 29:26; Shadrach et al. vs. Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel 3] and we yearn for both when in conflict, why do we not appropriate them from God when in conflict? 1 John 4:18 suggests it is because we stand paralyzed in fear, for our love is not fully mature. But how can that be true for a forgiven believer—unless our image of God is not correct?” “The author argues that our fear flows from an image of God as an angry judge, judging us from his Torah, a penal code of crime and punishment. But why do we think that when Christ on the cross wipes our sins away and gives us a spirit of sonship? [Romans 8:15]. Do we think it because we think our thousand-year Western legal tradition is biblically based and we subconsciously read it into Torah? What if that premise is wrong? After all, Torah originally meant instructions or teachings, not law.” “Mr. Bontrager reexamines the nature of God and his Word in view of Torah as a gracious gift of instructions to people blinded by sin, living in a fallen world, offered to us by God to guide us in working through conflict according to his ways, thereby finding peace and justice [Psalm 119].”

Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080281980X

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Until Justice and Peace Embrace by Nicholas Wolterstorff Pdf

Analyzes the structure of the modern social order and examines the Christian's proper goals of working for peace and justice.

Author : Thomas Massaro, SJ
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781442271753

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Mercy in Action by Thomas Massaro, SJ Pdf

Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has tackled many issues of urgent reform within the church. Mercy in Action explores Pope Francis’s efforts to renewCatholic social teaching—the guidance the church offers on matters that pertain to social justice in the world. The book examines what Pope Francis has said, done, and written on six critical social issues today—economic inequality, worker justice, preserving the environment, healthy family life, the plight of refugees, and peacemaking. The book also highlights both continuity and change in Catholic social teaching. Author Thomas Massaro illustrates how on each social issue—from expressing solidarity with unemployed workers to writing an encyclical addressing environmental degradation and climate change—Pope Francis has worked to update the church’s message of social justice and mercy.

Author : Henri J. M. Nouwen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015040157946

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The Road to Peace by Henri J. M. Nouwen Pdf

Throughout his life Henri Nouwen stressed the connection between intimacy with Christ and solidarity with a wounded world. From his early support for the civil rights movement, through his engagement in the cause of peace and his life with the handicapped members of the L'Arche community, Nouwen was always engaged with the social dimensions of the gospel. In gathering Nouwen's writings on peace and social justice, editor John Dear amplifies this crucial element of Nouwen's message about the call of Christian discipleship. At the same time, Nouwen issues a call to activists to be peacemakers in the fullest sense: to root their witness in prayer, joy, and a spirit of love. Included are a previously unpublished essay on peacemaking; stories of the March on Selma and the funeral of Martin Luther King; reflections on the legacies of Oscar Romero and Thomas Merton; and a moving talk on compassion in the time of AIDS. For all those who have read and treasured the life and work of Henri Nouwen, The Road to Peace is an inspiration, and a challenge to live our Christian lives with both love and action.