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The study of comparative religion is no longer a matter merely for those interested in religion – it is a matter of concern for everybody. For irrespective of whether one believes in God, religion is a major characteristic of identity. And in the post 9/11 world, every educated person is aware of how important it is to understand what others believe. This collection of essays by international scholars emerged from an intense and powerful dialogue at the University of Hong Kong about love in the major religions of the world. Eschewing the comforting, but ultimately erroneous and dangerous idea that all religions believe more or less the same thing, each essay examines the role and nature of love in a major religion of the world. It is an invaluable guide for students, teachers and the general reader wanting to cut through the morass of doctrinal differences and emphases in the world's religions. It also makes an important contribution to the urgent issue of dialogue amongst faiths and cultures.

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This book draws on two scholars - Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy and Eric Voegelin - who defied the trends of the modern university by refusing to make distinctions between sociology, politics, history, theology and philosophy. As one of the contributors correctly states what we learn from them is that `understanding revolution' is part of an inquiry, simultaneously historical and allegorical, into the `spiritual dimension of human participation in the process of reality as the experienced tension between order and disorder'. It is ambitious to talk about revolutions, or, for that matter, any type of social or political phenomena, in this manner. But, arguably, it is just what the social sciences and social philosophy need today. -Eduardo de la Fuente, Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University of South Australia

This book draws on two scholars - Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy and Eric Voegelin - who defied the trends of the modern university by refusing to make distinctions between sociology, politics, history, theology and philosophy. As one of the contributors correctly states what we learn from them is that 'understanding revolution' is part of an inquiry, simultaneously historical and allegorical, into the 'spiritual dimension of human participation in the process of reality as the experienced tension between order and disorder'. It is ambitious to talk about revolutions, or, for that matter, any type of social or political phenomena, in this manner. But, arguably, it is just what the social sciences and social philosophy need today. -Eduardo de la Fuente, Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University of South Australia

This book draws on two scholars - Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy and Eric Voegelin - who defied the trends of the modern university by refusing to make distinctions between sociology, politics, history, theology and philosophy. As one of the contributors correctly states what we learn from them is that 'understanding revolution' is part of an inquiry, simultaneously historical and allegorical, into the 'spiritual dimension of human participation in the process of reality as the experienced tension between order and disorder'. It is ambitious to talk about revolutions, or, for that matter, any type of social or political phenomena, in this manner. But, arguably, it is just what the social sciences and social philosophy need today. -Eduardo de la Fuente, Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University of South Australia

Author Information

Wayne Cristaudo is Director of European Studies at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author and editor of a number of books including Power, Love and Evil: Contribution to a Philosophy of the Damaged, The Cross and the Star: The Post-Nietzschean Christian and Jewish Thought of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig, edited with Frances Huessy (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), Religion, Redemption, and Revolution: The New Speech Thinking of Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and A Philosophical History of Love.Gregory Kaplan is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University, Texas, USA. He is presently writing Hallowing Days: Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig on Life between the Secular and the Sacred for Fordham University Press. He has co-edited with William B. Parsons Disciplining Freud on Religion, and written a number of articles and chapters on ethics, philosophical theology and Jewish thought.

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