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A New Christianity for a New World
A New Christianity for a New World, Why Traditional Faith is Dying and How a New Faith is Being Born, by John Shelby Spong, HarperSanFrancisco, 2001, 276 pages $36.50 Tine and time again Bishop Spong...
Mansions of the Spirit
Mansions of the Spirit: The Gospel in a Multifaith World. by Michael Ingham, Anglican Book Centre, Toronto, 1997. When I first began reading Michael Ingham's 1997 book, Mansions of The Spirit, my cynical sense rushed...
Religion in Prison: Equal Rights in a Multi-faith Society
Religion in Prison: Equal Rights in a Multi-faith Society. Beckford, J & Gilliat, S (1998). Beckford and Gilliat present a clear understanding of "multi-faith" and "multicultural" as terms which define their area of sociological investigation...
Religious Ethics: A Sourcebook, Dobrin,Arthur, Hindi Granth Karyalay: Mumbai, 2004. ISBN 81-88769-01-0
by Joseph Romain When Religious Ethics appeared on my desk, I was thrilled. Finally someone, author/editor Arthur Dobrin, had produced a useful guide to the ethical frameworks of many world religions. Dobrin, Professor of Humanities...
Saving The World
Saving The World, by Henry Guy, Vox Sophia Publishing, Arlington Texas, 2002 A rather grand title for such a short book, only 144 pages. For 30 years Henry Guy has studied and taught at the...
Shrimad Rajchandra, Atmasiddhi, an English Translation with Commentary by Manu Doshi
Amrut Info Print Pvt. Ltd., 2003, 292 pages. When I received the invitation to review this book my first inclination was to find someone familiar with the Jain religion to evaluate its contents. Fortunately, I...
The Expanding Prison: The Crisis in Crime and Punishment and the Search for Alternatives
The Expanding Prison: The Crisis in Crime and Punishment and the Search for Alternatives. Cayley, D (1998). Cayley notes that prisons, like all institutions that grow in size, reach a point where they frustrate their...
The Rights Revolution
The Rights Revolution, Michael Ignatieff and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2000 AD, 160 pages, Anansi Press, Toronto, Canada While browsing the shelves of Toronto's Bay Street Indigo Bookstore, this book caught my attention. Ignatieff's presentation...
When Religion Becomes Evil
When Religion Becomes Evil, by Charles Kimball, Harper San Fransisco, 2002, 240 pages. I would expect that most people have been pondering the significance, and indeed, the relevance of religion in the light of recent...