Various religious perspectives are expressed in a collection of essays providing reflections on the terrorist attacks of September 2001 by authors including William Sloane Coffin, Elie Wiesel, Jeremy Langford, and Frederick Buechner.

Product Description: The contrtibutors to this collection offer personal, philosophical and historical views on questions about death. Contributors include: John Lachs, Jurgen Moltmann, David Roochnik, Aaron Garrett, David Schmidtz, David Eckel, Brian Jorgensen, Rita Rouner, Peter Gomes and Wendy Doniger...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The meaning of selfhood has become an urgent question, largely in reaction to the radical individualism in which many modern Western notions of selfhood have been cast. The 11 contributors to "Selves, People, and Persons" aim to reshape fundamental ideas of the self in such varied fields as theology, biology, psychoanalysis and political philosophy. Nearly all of them agree that selves are always to be understood in relation to the communities of which they are a part. The first section of the book focuses on basic issues in the philosophy of selfhood. Erazim Kohak's title essay explores American personalism while Harold H. Oliver argues that a self is always in the act of relation to some other. Lawrence E. Cahoone counters with reflections on the limits of this social and rational notion of selfhood and Edward W. James sketches a holistic view of the self in which the "either/or" of dualism can be transformed by a "both/and". The second group deals with selfhood in various cultures, beginning with Eliot Deutsch's exploration of how each tradition can enlarge its understanding of selfhood by incorporating elements from other traditions. John B. Carman examines the role of the self in Hindu "Bhakti", and Livia Kohn explores the role of spontaneity in Chinese views of selfhood. The problem of selfhood in theology, biology, psychoanlaysis and political theory comprises the final section: Krister Stendahl discusses the idea that our selfhood is understood primarily in terms of God's selfhood; Alfred I. Tauber examines biological ideas of organism in the work of Elie Metchnikoff; John E. Mack proposes that a spiritual point of view is now required in order to fully understand the psyche; and Bhikhu Parekh examines how the issue of violence is formulated and debated in liberal democracies.

Product Description: This work aims to defines the question Is there a human nature? It argues that we know our nature only when it is recognized by our culture and that the liberal democratic idea of the state both celebrates and threatens the notion of fundamental human equality.

Product Description: American political life has long honored the separation of church and state as the best way to protect religion from control by the state, and the state from control by religion. Yet religion has been a critical resource for the moral foundations without which the state crumbles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work discusses happiness as a form of tranquility, desire, and blessedness. It then deals with happiness in three major religious traditions - Jewish, Buddhist, and Confucian. It also includes a philosophical essay that focuses on the long-ago baseball rivalry between the Cubs and the Red Sox...read more

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Product Description: The contributors to this volume explore different perspectives on the nature of loneliness. They examine a cultural loneliness which is characteristic of the modern world, and a deeper loneliness that is a universal human experience which is inherent in the human condition. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text explores the notion that home is both a place and a condition of spirit. While a person may have a place that is home, he or she may also be nostalgic for an inner spiritual home, beyond human grasp. It combines autobiographical essays, with philosophical and religious explorations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These essays examine how some perennial problems in philosophy and religion are significant for understanding contemporary life. Issues discussed include: capitalism; public philosophy; man-made mass death; psychoanalysis; feminism; fundamentalism; and the desire to be happy.

Product Description: The twelve essays in this volume, written by some of the foremost experts in the fields of philosophy and theology, clarify what it means to be a friend, helping to restore talk about friendship to our common conversation.

This collection of essays reviews the approach to human rights of Judaism, Christianity, Marxism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism.

Meaning, Truth, and God provides essays by 11 eminent scholars concerned not only with the logic of religious belief and the effect of social content on religious meaning, but also with the truth-claim concerning the reality of God. The collection is divided into three parts, each of which includes a reinterpretation of central nineteenth-century thinkers (Hegel, Schleiermacher, Weber, Royce, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, and Schelling) as well as constructive articles. Part I explores the logic of theological inquiry and challenges to the veracity of religious discourse; Part II discusses social process and religious belief, and Part III directly addresses the question of the reality of God.

Product Description: This volume examines the different meanings of civil religion and their relation to political theology. Essays focus on a common ground of values in a democratic society; an assessment of the influence of Christian influence on public life; and practical applications of political theology...read more

Product Description: A collection of essays on the problems of comparative studies of religions and cultures. Methodology and specific religious cultures are examined.

Product Description: The individualism and restless mobility of modernity have become disorienting and frightening. Our nostalgia for premodern times, when natural bonds to kith and kin were unshakable, continues to surface - most recently in the popular phenomenon of support groups...read more

Discusses how aspects of the Christian experience made available to non-Christians could contribute to a common system of values and goals

Product Description: Coming in the wake of momentous changes in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, Germany and the movement for democracy in China, "Celebrating Peace" presents original essays by thinkers and writers to provide reflections on peace that go beyond current events and point towards extending and building peace...read more

Product Description: The Long Way Home is Lee Rouner's story of a journey which was to have taken him from Colombo, Sri Lanka home to his family in Boston. Enroute, however, he learned that his second son, Timothy, had been killed in Alaska while mountain climbing with his brother Rains...read more

Product Description: This work explores new approaches to the role of freedom in the contemporary world. It is clear the the idea of freedom has progressed with autonomous selfhood. But it is not yet evident how freedom is to be understood in a context where issues demand both pluralism and globalization...read more

Product Description: The Breakthrough courses are aimed at adult education classes and also at the self-study learner. Each course offers authentic, lively, conversational language through a coherent and carefully structured approach. The books have a wealth of illustrations including attractive photographs and artwork giving a real sense of the country and its culture...read more