Probing the depths of evil and good: multireligious views and case studies
In the few years since the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, evil has become a central theme in the media and human consciousness: the evil of terrorism, the evil of secular culture, concern for poverty, and climate change ... Yet different cultures and religious traditions hav...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam New York
Rodopi
2007
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| In: | Year: 2007 |
| Series/Journal: | Currents of encounter
33 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
The Good
/ Evil
/ Comparison of religions
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Ethics B PHILOSOPHY ; Ethics & Moral Philosophy B Good and evil ; Religious aspects B PHILOSOPHY ; Social B Electronic books B Good and evil Religious aspects B Conference program |
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Erscheint auch als: Probing the depths of evil and good. - Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007. - 9789042022317. - 9042022310 |
| Summary: | In the few years since the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, evil has become a central theme in the media and human consciousness: the evil of terrorism, the evil of secular culture, concern for poverty, and climate change ... Yet different cultures and religious traditions have different ideas of what evil is and what its root causes are. Although there is no massive clash of cultures, many disagreements and also conflicts in the world arise from the deep differences in views of evil. This volume explores religious views of evil. Scholars from different religions and fr Probing the Depths of Evil and Good; Table of Contents; Probing Evil and Good; Myths as Metaphors for Radical Evil; Maya as Evil; The Struggle with Evil; Evil and its Treatment in Early Taoism; The Problem of Evil in Confucianism; Evil and the Transformation of Evil in Buddhism and Socially Engaged Buddhism; Zen and the Question of Evil; Nothingness-qua-Love?; The Problem of "Evil" in Pure Land Buddhism; Awareness of Evil in Christianity and Buddhism; Emptying Good-and-Evil; Forgiving God; Conceptualizations of Evil in African Christian Theology. The Descent into Hell and the Phenomenon of Exorcism in the Early ChurchGod's Good Plan and Evil Forces in This World; "Soul of a Woman Was Created Below"; Evil, Virtue, and Islamic Moral Theology; The Islamic Point of View on the Problem of Evil; Critical Humanism and the Problem of Evil; Evil from a Comparative Perspective; Index of Names; Index of Subjects; Contributors to this Volume. |
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| Item Description: | This volume is part of the project on The problem of evil in religious traditions: origins, forms and coping, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Vrije Universiteit and the exhibition "Religion & Evil" in the Tropenmuseum. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 9042022310 |