Gary L. Comstock
Autore di Religious Autobiographies
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Gary L. Comstock is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, author of Vexing Nature? On the Ethical Case against Agricultural Biotechnology (Kluwer, 2000), and Editor-in-chief of On the Human at the National Humanities Center.
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Spring 1989, Vol. LVII, No. 1 (1989) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
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Religious Autobiographies di Gary L. Comstock
I was in the spring 1991 religious studies seminar class at Iowa State University that this book is "based" upon (or at least we helped some with material while Professor Comstock was finishing the book). Another guy and I did the readings on "liberation theology," including Carney's book "To Be a Revolutionary." My name should be in the "thank you/acknowledgments" section along with my classmates. I think I have a copy of this book (down in storage).
Not the book I thought it was going to be. This book is suited for a college/university class on World Religions.
Lakota Sioux, Druidry, Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, Creation Spirituality, Judaism, Honduran Catholicism, African-American Protestantism, and Islam are covered here with two autobiographies for each one. Prior to that we get a chapter on "What is Religious Autobiography" and another chapter on "What is Religion". We even get the author's own religious autobiography.
A word of caution for those with light stomachs- the Lakota Sioux and the Judaism biographies contain graphic descriptions that could be upsetting. The first Judaism one is a Holocaust survivor story.… (altro)
Lakota Sioux, Druidry, Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, Creation Spirituality, Judaism, Honduran Catholicism, African-American Protestantism, and Islam are covered here with two autobiographies for each one. Prior to that we get a chapter on "What is Religious Autobiography" and another chapter on "What is Religion". We even get the author's own religious autobiography.
A word of caution for those with light stomachs- the Lakota Sioux and the Judaism biographies contain graphic descriptions that could be upsetting. The first Judaism one is a Holocaust survivor story.… (altro)
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