The language of diversity
Subtitle: restoration toward peace and unity
By: edited by Mary Alice Trent ... [et al.].
Contributors: Trent, Mary Alice.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Newcastle, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781847183828
Subjects: Christianity and culture -- Congresses; Ethnic relations -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Special thanks to all who presented at the Conference on Christianity, Culture, and Diversity in America (CCCDA) in 2005 and 2006"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Efforts toward restoration and reconciliation among cultures. Introduction / Mary Alice Trent; title: Religious diversity and popular culture: a survey of the visions of religious diversity in Star Trek and the Di Vinci Code / Jeffrey S. Lamp; title: The Virgin of Guadalupe in religious and cultural contexts: warrior goddess or holy madonna? / Joann F. Allen; title: Reconciliation: truth telling as a means of addressing systematic racism in culture and the church / James Puglisi; title: The sanctity of life: learning to value every person as God does / David Gushee; title: Race, religion, and prejudice: an African diasporic overview / A. Ezekiel Olagoke; title: Social justice and peacemaking partnerships between Muslims and Christians: a Christian perspective / Christopher Van Gorder; title: Dwelling together: the power of community / Clifton Taulbert; title: Part II: Crossroads among Christianity, Islam, and Mormonism. Introduction / Mary Alice Trent; title: The Judeo-Christian concept of hesed as an essential element of restoration, peace, and unity / Lenore Mullican; title: Lessons from history (635 to 1050 AD) on restoring a better conversation between Christians and Muslims / Gregg Webb; title: When restoration fails: in the name of unity, Mormons ask Christians to accept a caricature of their true beliefs / James Spenser; title: Christianity over Islam / Reza Safa; title: 150 years after the Mountain Meadows Massacre: a call for responsibility, restitution, and remorse from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints / Mary Migliore; title: Part III: Educational platforms for conversations on religion, race, and gender. Introduction / Mary Alice Trent; title: Accommodating religious diversity in education: the Christian quest for a via media in the Canadian context / M. Louise Cornell; title: Females in the Christian college presidency: a restoration based in the Mennonite peace tradition / Annyce Stone and Timothy Norton; title: The socialization of education: the issues of peace, unity, and restoration concerning the inclusion of black history in the American history curriculum / Tasha Goode; title: Cultural competence community health nursing education: a user-friendly instrument to assess professional development needs / Sherri Tapp and Sharon Ware; title: From hypocrisy to revelation: using Bartolome de las Casas to teach moral theology / Paul Vickery; title: The Academy's conception of truth: examining the tenets of Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity / Timothy Norton and Beverly M. Hedbert; title: The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak: understanding racial diversity on a Christian campus / Alvin Edward Sanders, Jr.; title: Religion deconstructed in William Faulkner's Light in August: reading the dialect of Christianity in the margins of modernism / Phillip Davis; title: Tell them: the premise for African-American female children's literature / Althea Tait; title: "Shadows uplifted": gender and race perspectives in the works of Stowe and Harper / Lynn Alexander; title: Raising up credible leaders in the globally-cultural millennial age: six disciplines as modeled in the leadership of Jesus Christ / Samuel S. Hemby; title: Analyzing the diversity of anthologies: the influence of publishers on the American literary canon / Kay Meyers; title: A counselor's journal: interviews with five people from three different diverse populations / David Veach.