Religion Hurts
Why Religions do Harm as well as Good
The world contains a bewildering variety of religions, each containing an equally bewildering variety of practices and beliefs. How have religions developed and become so widespread? Why do they matter so much to so many people? Why do some believe that their faith requires them to terrorize and kill others? Why do religions do harm as well as good? This is a book for those who ask such questions. Some of the answers we hear today seem entirely uncritical of religion, while others dismiss it as inherently toxic and destructive. John Bowker, one of the world's most distinguished scholars of religion, delivers a timely analysis of the issues. H…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-281-07690-1
- EAN: 9780281076901
- Produktnummer: 29003539
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 382 KB
Über den Autor
John Bowker is Emeritus Professor at Gresham College, London. He has taught Religious Studies at the universities of Cambridge, Lancaster and Pennsylvania, and at North Carolina State University. He has been a consultant for UNESCO as well as a BBC broadcaster. He is the author or editor of more than forty books including The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (OUP, 1997), Is God a Virus? Genes, Culture and Religion (SPCK, 1995), The Meanings of Death (CUP, 2008, winner of the HarperCollins Prize), What Muslims Believe (Oneworld, 2009), God: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2014), Beliefs that Changed the World (Quercus, 2015) and Why Religions Matter (CUP, 2015).
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