Faith and Praxis in a Postmodern Age

Name: Faith and Praxis in a Postmodern Age
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ISBN: 9780304702619

ISBN-10: 0304702617

ISBN-13: 9780304702619

Edition: 1998

Authors: Ursula King

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The contributors to this volume explore the ways in which the question of religion impacts on political life in Britain, South Africa and Israel. Other issues covered include gender, sexuality, ecology and Buddhist belief and practice.

Book details

Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 206
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

The contributors
Introduction	p. 1
The decline and fall of reason: from modernity to postmodernity	p. 15
Trinitarian difference and world religions: postmodernity and the 'Other'	p. 28
Biodiversity and responsibility: a basis for a non-violent environmental ethic	p. 47
Gender equity and Christianity: premodern roots, modern and postmodern perspectives	p. 60
From dualism to difference: Christian theologies of human sexuality and the quest for wholeness in a postmodern age	p. 75
Spirituality in a postmodern age: faith and praxis in new contexts	p. 94
The other Enlightenment project: Buddhism, agnosticism and postmodernity	p. 113
Faith in the future? Islam and postmodernity	p. 128
Judaism and Israel: from faith to practice	p. 146
Faith, praxis and politics: the South African experience in the period from Gandhi to Desmond Tutu	p. 160
Christian futures, postmodernity and the state of Britain	p. 175
Index	p. 197
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