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Contents
Preface vii
List of Maps ix
I. Religion and Culture 1
Editor’s Introduction 3
1) Keeping the Faith:
Religion, Freedom, and International Affairs. Paul Marshall. USA Today
Magazine 5
2) Scholars Get Religion. Mark
Clayton. Christian Science Monitor 13
3) Psychiatry, Spirituality
and Religion. William R. Breakey. International Review of Psychiatry 18
4) A City That Echoes
Eternity. Kenneth L. Woodward. Newsweek 28
5) Pope John Paul II. Scott
Appleby. Foreign Policy 31
6) Russian Renewal. Michael
Bourdeaux. Christian Century 41
7) A Faith with Many Faces.
David R. Sands. Insight 51
II. Religion and Political
Violence 57
Editor’s Introduction 59
1) Occidentalism. Avishai
Margalit and Ian Buruma. New York Review of Books 61
2) Religion and the War
Against Evil. Harvey Cox. The Nation 73
3) Fundamentalism. R. Scott
Appleby and Martin E. Marty. Foreign Policy 78
4) Separated at Birth. Leela
Jacinto. ABCNEWS.com 86
5) Religious Wars?: A Short
History of the Balkans. Paul Mojzes. Commonweal 89
III. New Religions and
Religious Conversion 95
Editor’s Introduction 97
1) Oh, Gods! Toby Lester. Atlantic
Monthly 99
2) Falun Gong: What’s Behind
the Movements? Christopher Wanjek. Washington Post 116
3) The Church of the West. Economist
120
4) Guatemala’s New
Evangelists. Rachel Cobb. Natural History 125
5) The Expansion of
Christianity: An Interview with Andrew Walls. Christian Century 135
IV. Religion and Ecology 143
Editor’s Introduction 145
1) Religion Goes Green:
Ecology Joins Theology. Linda Ashton. Houston Chronicle 147
2) Science, Religion, and
Ecology Turn Eastward. Michael J. Strada. USA Today Magazine 150
3) Religion, Modern Secular
Culture, and Ecology. George Rupp. Dædalus 159
V. Religion and Gender 165
Editor’s Introduction 167
1) Thai Monk Blazes Path for
Equality for Women. New York Times 169
2) Islam’s Female Converts.
Priya Malhotra. Newsday 172
3) New Fields and Strict
Judaism Coexist. Nina Siegal. New York Times 176
4) Reconciliation. Vanessa E.
Jones. Boston Globe 181
Bibliography 185
Books 187
Additional Periodical Articles
with Abstracts 189
Index 197
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