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The Anthropology of Western Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world's major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind Western religious traditions from an anthropological perspective, Murray J. Leaf demonstrates how these ideas have been used in building internal organizations that mobilize or fail to mobilize external support. Leaf documents a wide range of cultural and social phen

Religions. --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion

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This book is a collection of essays by a select array of international scholars, on a range of issues concerning plurality, pluralism, and other closely related concepts, which constitute the framework and guiding thread for the whole volume. The themes and subjects dealt with here address issues of the greatest concern, particularly in the delicate context of present-day Europe and of modern societies with a global scale. The volume's basis is the belief that pluralism, globality, technology, mass media, and computer networks are distinctive traits of contemporary society in all its complexity - and that, therefore, such notions provide essential conceptual tools for explaining and understanding the current age. Featured in this volume are twelve contributions by scholars from different fields of philosophy, the humanities and the social sciences. In their essays, the contributors address the complexities of the contemporary world and the challenges with which it confronts all these disciplines. In this way, they provide a philosophical analysis of phenomena, situations, and problems that are typical of this complex world. Their different approaches and disciplinary perspectives all share an open-mindedness which is characteristic of the philosophical attitude; but also take into account the results of research in different fields of the human sciences as applied to the study of contemporary society, politics and culture, as well as artistic practice and aesthetic experience. This book will be of interest for scholars in the fields of philosophy, political sciences, Spanish thought, theory of art and literature; for students in programs of cultural studies or of the different fields of the humanities; and for the general reader with an interest in philosophical reflection on the complexities of pluralism and the modern world.

Religions. --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Pluralism

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Religion is alive and well all over the world, especially in times of personal, political, and social crisis. Even in Europe, long regarded the most “secular” continent, religion has taken centre stage in how people respond to the crises associated with modernity, or how they interact with the nation-state. In this book, scholars working in and on Europe offer fresh perspectives on how religion provides answers to existential crisis, how crisis increases the salience of religious identities and cultural polarization, and how religion is contributing to changes in the modern world in Europe and beyond. Cases from Poland to Pakistan and from Ireland to Zimbabwe, among others, demonstrate the complexity and ambivalence of religion’s role in the contemporary world.

Sociology of religion --- Europe --- Religion --- Religions --- Crisis management --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- History --- Religious aspects.

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"Surveying spiritual and philosophical traditions, revives the search for wisdom for modern times"--Provided by publisher.

Wisdom. --- Religions. --- Philosophy. --- Conduct of life. --- Ethics, Practical --- Morals --- Personal conduct --- Ethics --- Philosophical counseling --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Experience --- Intellect --- Learning and scholarship --- Reason

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Wirtschaftsethik will ethische Leitlinien und Normen für wirtschaftlich Handelnde entwickeln. Hier werden allgemein-verständliche Impulse der Religionen für eine gerechtere und nachhaltige Wirtschaftsordnung vorgestellt, denn die Weltwirtschaft funktioniert nicht in zufriedenstellender Weise. Immer noch verbrauchen wir Ressourcen dieses Planeten in einem Ausmaß, das unserer Umwelt bleibenden Schaden zufügt. Immer noch verhungern Millionen von Menschen im Süden, während der Norden im Überfluss lebt. Hier braucht es dringend ethische Leitlinien, die sicherstellen, dass unsere Wirtschaftsweise nachhaltig die Interessen und Überlebenschancen aller Menschen zu sichern vermag. Führende Gelehrte aus den großen Weltreligionen zeichnen in dem Band Impulse ihrer Religionen für eine ethische Neuorientierung angesichts von Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise nach und bringen sie miteinander und mit religionsexternen Sichtweisen ins Gespräch.

Christian moral theology --- Economics --- Religions. --- Globalization. --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Religion and economics --- Religious aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects.