Chronicles of Wasted Time

Chronicles of Wasted Time
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
Publisher: London : Collins
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1972
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This first volume of the autobiography of an inveterate journalist and communicator ends in 1933 when the author was 30.

World Religions and Norms of War

World Religions and Norms of War
Author: Vesselin Popovski
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Over more than two millennia, the world's leading religious traditions have provided the guidance in questions of when war can be justified, and of what methods and targets are permissible in war. Linking deep historical analysis to contemporary issues, this volume provides insight to the understanding of the role and influence of religion in the state politics. The book examines the norms of war in Hinduism, in Theravada Buddhism, in Japanese religion, in Judaism, in Roman Catholic Christianity, in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, in Protestant Christianity, in Shia Islam and in Sunni Islam, and discusses norms of war in cross-religious perspective.--Publisher's description.

Utilitarianism - Ed. Heydt

Utilitarianism - Ed. Heydt
Author: John Stuart Mill
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010-08-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1460402103

John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism is a philosophical defense of utilitarianism, a moral theory stating that right actions are those that tend to promote overall happiness. The essay first appeared as a series of articles published in Fraser’s Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. Mill discusses utilitarianism in some of his other works, including On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, but Utilitarianism contains his only sustained defence of the theory. In this Broadview Edition, Colin Heydt provides a substantial introduction that will enable readers to understand better the polemical context for Utilitarianism. Heydt shows, for example, how Mill’s moral philosophy grew out of political engagement, rather than exclusively out of a speculative interest in determining the nature of morality. Appendices include precedents to Mill’s work, reactions to Utilitarianism, and related writings by Mill.

Why I Believed

Why I Believed
Author: Kenneth W. Daniels
Publisher: Kenneth W Daniels
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2008-06-28
Genre: Christianity
ISBN: 0578003880

Part auto-biography and part exposé of Ken Daniels' experience and long time belief in Christianity and the questions and answers he's had to ask about with regard to the validity of Christian theories.

Native Americans and the Christian Right

Native Americans and the Christian Right
Author: Andrea Smith
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2008-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822341635

DIVArgues that previous accounts of religious and political activism in the Native American community fail to account for the variety of positions held by this community./div