John Bowker

Gebundenes Buch

Religion Hurts

Why Religions Do Harm as Well as Good

Beschreibung

The capacity of religion to bring about conflict between groups or furthermore to motivate violence and terrorism is analysed in relation to whether religion is worth the harm it causes, by eminent religious commentator John Bowker.

Autor

John Bowker is Emeritus Professor at Gresham College, London. He has taught Religious Studies at the universities of Cambridge, Lancaster and Pennsylvania, and at North Carolina State University. He is the author or editor of more than forty books, including The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (Oxford University Press, 1997), The Meanings of Death (Cambridge University Press, 2008, winner of the HarperCollins Prize), What Muslims Believe (Oneworld, 2009), God: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2014), Beliefs that Changed the World (Quercus, 2015) and Why Religions Matter (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 127mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780281080168
• ISBN-10: 028108016X
• Artikelnr.: 53184752