The language of diversity: restoration toward peace and unity
Part I: Efforts toward restoration and reconciliation among cultures. Introduction / Mary Alice Trent -- Religious diversity and popular culture: a survey of the visions of religious diversity in Star Trek and the Di Vinci Code / Jeffrey S. Lamp -- The Virgin of Guadalupe in religious and cultural c...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Newcastle, UK
Cambridge Scholars Publ.
2007
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| In: | Year: 2007 |
| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Reconciliation
/ Intercultural understanding
/ Interfaith dialogue
/ Multi-cultural society
B USA / Race relations / Gender composition / Religiosity |
| Further subjects: | B
Conference program 2005 (Tulsa, Okla)
B Ethnic Relations Congresses B Christianity and culture Congresses |
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Table of Contents Blurb |
| Summary: | Part I: Efforts toward restoration and reconciliation among cultures. Introduction / Mary Alice Trent -- Religious diversity and popular culture: a survey of the visions of religious diversity in Star Trek and the Di Vinci Code / Jeffrey S. Lamp -- The Virgin of Guadalupe in religious and cultural contexts: warrior goddess or holy madonna? / Joann F. Allen -- Reconciliation: truth telling as a means of addressing systematic racism in culture and the church / James Puglisi -- The sanctity of life: learning to value every person as God does / David Gushee -- Race, religion, and prejudice: an African diasporic overview / A. Ezekiel Olagoke -- Social justice and peacemaking partnerships between Muslims and Christians: a Christian perspective / Christopher Van Gorder -- Dwelling together: the power of community / Clifton Taulbert -- Part II: Crossroads among Christianity, Islam, and Mormonism. Introduction / Mary Alice Trent -- The Judeo-Christian concept of hesed as an essential element of restoration, peace, and unity / Lenore Mullican -- Lessons from history (635 to 1050 AD) on restoring a better conversation between Christians and Muslims / Gregg Webb -- When restoration fails: in the name of unity, Mormons ask Christians to accept a caricature of their true beliefs / James Spenser -- Christianity over Islam / Reza Safa -- 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 -- Part III: Educational platforms for conversations on religion, race, and gender. Introduction / Mary Alice Trent -- Accommodating religious diversity in education: the Christian quest for a via media in the Canadian context / M. Louise Cornell -- Females in the Christian college presidency: a restoration based in the Mennonite peace tradition / Annyce Stone and Timothy Norton -- The socialization of education: the issues of peace, unity, and restoration concerning the inclusion of black history in the American history curriculum / Tasha Goode -- Cultural competence community health nursing education: a user-friendly instrument to assess professional development needs / Sherri Tapp and Sharon Ware -- From hypocrisy to revelation: using Bartolome de las Casas to teach moral theology / Paul Vickery -- The Academy's conception of truth: examining the tenets of Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity / Timothy Norton and Beverly M. Hedbert -- The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak: understanding racial diversity on a Christian campus / Alvin Edward Sanders, Jr. -- Religion deconstructed in William Faulkner's Light in August: reading the dialect of Christianity in the margins of modernism / Phillip Davis -- Tell them: the premise for African-American female children's literature / Althea Tait -- "Shadows uplifted": gender and race perspectives in the works of Stowe and Harper / Lynn Alexander -- Raising up credible leaders in the globally-cultural millennial age: six disciplines as modeled in the leadership of Jesus Christ / Samuel S. Hemby -- Analyzing the diversity of anthologies: the influence of publishers on the American literary canon / Kay Meyers -- A counselor's journal: interviews with five people from three different diverse populations / David Veach |
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| Item Description: | "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 |
| Physical Description: | XIII, 345 S., 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84718-382-8 1-84718-382-4 |
