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Comparing Religions: Coming to Terms Jeffrey J. Kripal, Erin Prophet, Ata Anzali
Publisher: Wiley

I was stunned by the way in which our administration construed the situation in terms of good and evil, and then used the language of Christianity to justify our response. Glad you're coming to terms with India, and glad you found a genuinely civil servant to help you. It will not be possible or necessary to answer all the questions that might come to mind about religions in America and in the global world in our time, but a platform for the forum of public discussion about such questions certainly can be constructed. Jul 11, 2013 - The Fundamentalism Project was the most sustained effort to legitimize the term as a tool of comparison across religions. €�a very big Freudian screwdriver” — Jeffrey Kripal, Comparing Religions: Coming to Terms, 204. He is sympathetic to both the perpetrators and the prosecutors of religion-motivated child abuse, and he makes their personalities and their struggles come alive. I've taken the time to establish some of Kripal's academic credentials because, .. Aug 15, 2013 - Sister Ilia Delio discusses an 'evolutionary' approach with the women religious gathered in… “If we are to rethink in terms of religion, we have to think in terms of cosmology,” Sister Ilia said. They callously disregarded the terms of probation and their eight-month-old son died of untreated bacterial pneumonia when they failed to seek medical care for him. May 24, 2012 - And now compare the deafening silence and indifference of African states to combating witchcraft related abuses with their vehement and strident opposition to recognizing the human rights of gay people. Mar 31, 2014 - Kripal is also the author of six impressive scholarly books with the University of Chicago Press and most recently of a groundbreaking textbook in Comparative Religions, which I will be blogging about further this summer. I just said, compared to others, we are more-so. May 27, 2014 - In conversation with Paul Courtright of Emory University, Jeffrey Kripal, of Rice University, discusses his new textbook, Comparing Religions: Coming to Terms. In fact, if you look at the happiness quotient of impoverished countries in comparison with the happiness quotient of affluent countries, the impoverished countries are filled with much happier people. Posted by Geoffrey Chaucer on Thursday, Aug 15, 2013 7:01 PM (EDT): I'm having a very hard time understanding what she said - constantly skirting between a faux profundity and the absurd (I do not mean to be uncharitable). Dec 10, 2009 - All else is considered banal by comparison. Thriller and is hard to put down. Jan 4, 2014 - “I agree that most religions serve similar functions in the lives of those who follow them, but I think that the problems they're trying to solve are wildly different.” His English .