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An essential introduction to the world's living religions by experts from each tradition -- published in conjunction with the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions.... More

The concept of religious freedom is the favoured modern human rights concept, with which the modern world hopes to tackle the phenomenon of religious pluralism, as our modern existence in an electronically shrinking globe comes to be increasingly characterised by this phenomenon. To begin with, the ... More

An essential introduction to the world's living religions by experts from each tradition -- published in conjunction with the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions.... More

History is never contemporary, for the contemporary is perpetually slipping into history, but with some license one may refer to the immediate past as contemporary history. This point possesses some additional justification when the field to which it is applied is that of the world's religions becau... More

In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, "What I want to achieve--what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years--is self-realization, to see God face to face. . . . All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end... More

They say religion is a personal and private affair. But when a woman believes in a tradition, she has a relationship to that faith beyond her sacred space. Religious traditions' historically poor treatment of women has lead many to question why they believe. How has their tradition either embrace... More

They say religion is a personal and private affair. But when a woman believes in a tradition, she has a relationship to that faith beyond her sacred space. Religious traditions' historically poor treatment of women has lead many to question why they believe. How has their tradition either embraced a... More

A male and female pair of McGill U. professors of religion, who co- edit , introduce personal cum analytical examinations by eight women scholars on the ways that major religionsfrom Buddhism to Wiccahave embraced and excluded women. For example, one contributor found that while Judaism helped fra... More

They say religion is a personal and private affair. But when a woman believes in a tradition, she has a relationship to that faith beyond her sacred space. Religious traditions' historically poor treatment of women has lead many to question why they believe. How has their tradition either embraced a... More

Feminism has had, and continues to have, an impact on the world religions, because it has criticized them for perpetuating male hegemony over women, or "patriarchy." This book examines the interaction of feminism and world religions. ... More

This book outlines approaches to human rights and responsibilities within the different world religions.... More

Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to bene... More

This book brings together the most recent advances from leading experts in the burgeoning field of environmental biotechnology. The contributing chapters adopt a multidisciplinary approach related to environmental aspects of agriculture, industry, pharmaceutical sciences and drug developments from p... More

This volume comprises select peer-reviewed contributions from the International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE) 2019. The contents focus on latest research in production and manufacturing engineering including case studies with analytical models and latest numerical approa... More