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Religion and the Politics of War
Editor: Chandana Chakrabarti and Joel Wilcox
Date Of Publication: Aug 2006
Isbn13: 9781847180247
Isbn: 1-84718-024-8
Religious strife and theocratic inclinations—at present widespread and threatening to become yet more so—are obviously harmful to human beings, but also to life on earth generally. This book examines the complex interrelationships between religion, politics and war from a variety of perspectives in an attempt not only to enable the reader to gain an understanding of these interrelationships, but also to contribute to a critically important discussion concerning problems which they generate. The chapters examine topics such as arguments for and against the separation of church and state, whether or to what extent religion can be said to be the cause of war, the nature of (especially religious) tolerance, the ethics of evangelism, the nature and adequacy of the American response to the events of September 11, 2001 and possible ways to address the problems of, and arising from, religious strife and theocratic inclinations. The selection of readings is sufficiently diverse and accessible to afford interested students or non-specialists a grasp of the big picture with respect to the issues involved. Specialists in disciplines such as history, philosophy, political science or theology will find many stimuli for reflection and discussion. The book is notable for its combination of both western and Asian analyses and responses to the issues. This mixture of approaches constitutes an attempt on the part of the editors to represent in microcosm a discussion that, for reasons noted above, cannot take place too quickly or too widely.
Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti of Elon University (North Carolina) is a specialist in South Asian philosophy and religion. She has taught at both Jadavpur University and Victoria College in India, and at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has visited at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. She has published numerous research papers and articles, read some seventy papers at conferences and other professional venues, and organized many conferences, of which one, "Religion and the Politics of War: Colonization and Globalization" at Elon College in March of 2005, produced most of the material for this volume.
Dr. Joel Wilcox is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Barry University (Florida). He wrote his dissertation on Heraclitus and worked for some years as a specialist in Greek philosophy, but for the past several years has devoted most of his teaching and research to aesthetics and Asian philosophy. This is so because he sees Asian philosophy as generally more satisfactory than western, and because he thinks he sees fruitful parallels between "aesthetic attitude"-type theories and the meditative states with which Asian thought is often concerned. He has authored The Origins of Epistemology in Ancient Greek Thought (Edwin Mellen Press, 1994) and several papers on the presocratics and other Greek philosophers. Although he has given several talks on Asian thought, the paper in this volume is his first publication in Asian thought.
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