TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ramachandra,Vinoth
TI  - Subverting global myths: theology and the public issues shaping our world 
SN  - 9780830828852 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HN31 .R36 2008
U1  - 261.8 RAM 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Downers Grove, Ill.
PB  - IVP Academic
KW  - Religion and social problems
KW  - Social problems
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Religion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-288) and indexes; Myths of terrorism -- Reaping the whirlwind -- The globalization of Islamist militancy -- Deconstructing the "war on terror" -- Applying just-war reasoning -- Needed : humility and courageous imagination -- Myths of religious violence -- Escaping parochialism -- The complexities of "religious violence" -- Two Asian case studies -- Atheist polemics and collective deception -- Recovering Christian integrity -- Mutual criticism -- Myths of human rights -- The language of rights -- Questioning the standard liberal story -- Toward an alternative story -- Individual rights -- Relationality and rights -- Legislating for rights -- Recovering a tradition -- Myths of multiculturalism -- Understanding cultures -- Multicultural nationhood -- A defense of multicultural society -- Reconfiguring the multicultural state -- Secularist fundamentalism -- Rights of refugees and asylees -- Ethics of freedom -- Myths of science -- Science as ideology -- Two widespread myths -- Scientific research and moral responsibility -- Genetic engineering -- The return of eugenics -- Post/transhumanism -- Gods or nothings : the false choice -- Myths of postcolonialism -- Decentering world history -- The colonial legacy -- Postcolonialism -- Toward a more nuanced understanding -- Postcolonialism and resistance from the margins -- Some theological reflections
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0813/2008008911.html
ER  -