Promise and Peril
Subtitle: The Paradox of Religion As Resource and Threat (Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion)
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780268038250
Subjects: Philosophy of religion; Religious conflict; Religion; Religion - World Religions; Comparative Religion; Christian Life - General; Religious aspects; Violence
Description: "Promise and Peril delivers current analyses of the major religious conflicts in the world, including eye-opening assessments by leading academics and journalists of hot-button issues such as fundamentalism, the Israeli/Palestine conflict, and the hostility between Pakistan and India. This essential volume also turns its attention to religious threats such as the new Japanese religion Aum Shinrikyo, which in 1995 unleashed the nerve gas sarin in a crowded Tokyo subway."--BOOK JACKET.