Coping with evil in religion and culture
Subtitle: case studies
By: edited by Nelly van Doorn-Harder and Lourens Minnema
Series: Currents of encounter -- v. 35
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9789042023376
Subjects: Good and evil; Het Kwaad; Comparative Ethics; Congresses; Case studies
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gift of Philosophers Index
Table of contents: title: The problem of defining evil / Nelly van Doorn-Harder and Lourens Minnema; title: Images of evil in popular Ghanaian Christianity / Birgit Meyer; title: Druids, deer and "words of power": coming to terms with evil in medieval Ireland / Jacqueline Borsje; title: The evil comes from outside: evil within religion as a psychosocial problem among adolescent Moroccan girls in the Netherlands / Edien Bartels; title: Conquering Satan, demons, principalities, and powers: Ghanaian traditional and Christian perspectives on religion, evil, and deliverance / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu; title: A schema repertoire approach to exorcism: two case studies of spiritual warfare / Peter Versteeg and Andre Droogers; title: How 'Satanic' is Satanism? A normative description / Reender Kranenborg; title: "You follow the path of the Shaitan; we try to follow the righteous path": negotiating evil in the identity construction of young Moroccan-Dutch Muslims / Martijn de Koning; title: Defining evil to strengthen Islam: Muhannadiyah ideologies of gender and marriage / Nelly van Doorn-Harder; title: Beyond Ujamaa: African religion and societal evil / Frans Wijsen; title: Religion and evil from the perspective of mimetic theory / Andre Lascaris; title: Coping with human evil: Shakespeare's sense of the tragic revenge / Lourens Minnema; title: The power and limits of stories: on the questions "how to cope with evil?" and "how to avoid evil?" / Edwin Koster; title: Prayer as a means of coping with evil: approaches from the perspective of Lutheran dogmatics / Christiane Tietz; title: Coping with tragedy and malice / R. Ruard Ganzevoort.