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- ISBN 9781498564847
- Weight: 667g
- Dimensions: 161 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Today’s globalized society faces some of humanity’s most unprecedented social and environmental challenges. Presenting new and insightful approaches to a range of these challenges, the timely volume before you draws upon individual cases of exemplary leadership from the world’s Dharma traditions—Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, and Buddhism. The volume's authors refer to such exemplary leaders as “beacons of Dharma,” highlighting the ways in which each figure, via their inspirational life work, provide us with illuminating perspectives as we continue to confront cases of grave injustice and needless suffering in the world.
Taking on difficult contemporary issues such as climate change, racial and gender inequality, industrial agriculture and animal rights, fair access to healthcare and education, and other such pressing concerns, Beacons of Dharma offers a promising and much needed contribution to our global remedial discussions. Seeking to help solve and alleviate such social and environmental issues, each of the chapters in the volume invites contemplation, inspires action, and offers a freshly invigorating source of hope.
Jeffery D. Long is professor of religion and Asian studies at Elizabethtown College and author of A Vision for Hinduism, Jainism: An Introduction and the Historical Dictionary of Hinduism.
Christopher Patrick Miller is the Bhagwan Mallinath assistant professor of Jainism and yoga studies at Loyola Marymount University.
Michael Reading is PhD candidate in comparative theology and philosophy at Claremont School of Theology, and an adjunct instructor of religious studies at Mt. St. Mary's University, Los Angeles
