No-Nonsense Guide to Religion
“Religion” is a term that the media often use without any clarification. But it is a loaded word that encompasses hundreds of different beliefs. Religion can be seen as a source of war and peace, love and hate, dialogue and narrow-mindedness. The globalization of communications has raised awareness of religious conversion, with more people than ever before belonging to a different religious community than their parents.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion considers how religion has shaped our culture, and how our culture is shaping religion today.
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Praise
I recommend this book, not simply as another good book about religion (it is that) but as [a collection of] some fresh thinking about the way forward for religion.
– The Friend
Contents
| Foreword | by Ziauddin Sardar |
| Introduction | |
| Chapter 1 | Talking about Religion |
| Chapter 2 | A Religious World |
| Chapter 3 | Questions of Truth |
| Chapter 4 | Power and Oppression |
| Chapter 5 | Resistance and Liberation |
| Chapter 6 | An Elusive Freedom |
| Chapter 7 | Sacred Violence, Sacred Peace |
| Chapter 8 | The Future |
| Bibliography | |
| Index |
