Prophetic Wisdom: Engaged Buddhism's Struggle for Social Justice and Complete Liberation - Couverture souple

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Strain, Charles R.

 
9781438498003: Prophetic Wisdom: Engaged Buddhism's Struggle for Social Justice and Complete Liberation
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ISBN 10 : 1438498004 ISBN 13 : 9781438498003
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2024

Synopsis

Shows how Engaged Buddhists can expand their understanding of the causes of collective suffering and develop nonviolent means for social transformation through a dialectic of love, power, and justice.

Classical Buddhism lacked an understanding of systemic injustice and its contribution to collective suffering. Despite the teaching of impermanence, classical Buddhist schools viewed social institutions as given and offered no path to social transformation. Today, Buddhists are shaped by multiple religious and secular traditions, including those stemming from the Hebrew prophets. The prophetic tradition offers a socially and religiously powerful concept-the concept of justice-that reconfigures the Buddhist dharma.

In a time of unparalleled peril, Buddhists are challenged as never before to turn wisdom into strategic action to foster systemic social change. Compassion is not enough. Prophetic Wisdom shows how Engaged Buddhists can expand their understanding of the causes of collective suffering and develop nonviolent means for social transformation through a dialectic of love, power, and justice. It concludes by confronting the poison of racism in the American body politic.

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À propos de l?auteur

Charles R. Strain is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at DePaul University. His previous books include Global Migration: What's Happening, Why, and a Just Response (coauthored with Elizabeth W. Collier) and The Prophet and the Bodhisattva: Daniel Berrigan, Thich Nhat Hanh, and the Ethics of Peace and Justice, which won the Society for Buddhist Christian Studies Frederick J. Streng Book of the Year Award in 2014.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1438498004
ISBN 13 
9781438498003
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
295
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9781438498010: Prophetic Wisdom: Engaged Buddhism's Struggle for Social Justice and Complete Liberation

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ISBN 10 :  1438498012 ISBN 13 :  9781438498010
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2024
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