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Religion, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa: Challenges
Religion has been presented as a critical resource in both discourses on peacebuilding and development. However, as conflicts increase worldwide, the...
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Religion, Migration and Educational Practice: Empirical, Postcolonial and Theological Perspectives
Educational institutions serving Germany’s immigrant communities struggle with many challenges. About one-third of the refugees are school-aged...
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Buddhist Economics: Creating a Sustainable and Compassionate Economy
Our global economy faces two major economic threats—inequality and climate change—along with the political threat of nuclear war. The mainstream free...
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Introduction
In this chapter the editors of the volume explain the main structure of the book, which wants to shed light on selected lines of the documents of the...
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Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa: A Critical Appreciation
This chapter appraises the role of religion and religious actors in peacebuilding processes in Africa. By picking three varied case studies, the...
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Sustainability Studies: Beyond the Denial of Religion and Theology as Resources—An Introduction
The devastation of the ecosphere is inextricably linked to unsustainable economic, ecological, societal, geopolitical, cultural, and ethical...
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Sacred Drama and Temporal Tapestries: Invoking the Divine by Performing the Past in Contemplative Christianity
American adherents of Wisdom Christianity have performed historiopraxic sacred drama to weave a politically charged experiential and conceptual...
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“Theology After Gulag, Bucha, and Beyond”: How Can Karl Barth’s Theology Contribute to Reorientation in the Contemporary European Crisis? A Post-Soviet Case
In the face of the challenges of the post-Soviet resurgence of religion, and the framing of the current war in Ukraine as a metaphysical war, what...
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Interrogating Hospitality : Toward a Decolonized Practice of Interfaith Spiritual Care
This chapter offers a theoretical exploration of Interfaith Spiritual Care (ISC) and focuses on answering several key questions related to the...
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Correction to: Animal Rights within Judaism: The Nature of the Relationship Between Religion and Ethics
This book was inadvertently published with Dr. Weisberger as deceased at the time of publication in a footnote for chapter 12. This footnote is now...
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Interreligious Relations and the Negotiation of Ritual Boundaries Explorations in Interrituality
This volume explores the ways in which interreligious encounters happen ritually. Drawing upon theology, philosophy, political sciences,...
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Joy in the Interfaith Encounter
The Orthodox Jewish community has only recently begun to respond to the Catholic Church’s overtures of reconciliation that began in 1965, when the...
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Interfaith Networks and Development
A video of an interfaith prayer outside a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, went viral in early 2021. People from diverse communities of faith,...
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Colonization, Proselytism and Conversion: Can Interfaith Dialogue Be the Answer? Pope Francis’ Contribution
For several centuries, Catholic missions spread all over the four continents in the shadow of colonialism. This has contributed to create the image...
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Communication, Culture, and Fundamental Theology
Need for interreligious dialogue has been the driving force of religious pluralism seen in Chap. 2 , although their manner of going about it has...
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Education and Interfaith Development in Northern Nigeria
This chapter is on education and interfaith development in Northern Nigeria in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In...
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Religion, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa: An Introduction
This chapter introduces the handbook. It summarizes the key issues relating to the focus of the handbook. The chapter begins by providing an overview...
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Teaching About the Religious and Non-religious Other: Three Paradigms and an Islamic Perspective
This theoretical research examines the exclusivist, inclusivist, and critical paradigms of religious education and their possible implications for...
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Epilogue: The ‘Living Tradition’ of Eastern Orthodoxy in Italy
The chapter summarizes the findings yielded by the research conducted for the book. It reviews the case of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Italy,...