02346cam a2200277 a 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000390008802000360012703500240016303500210018704000440020805000200025208200140027210000250028624501030031126000490041430000210046350400680048450513510055265000340190365000480193785600830198515194288OSt20170612142627.0080226s2008    ilu      b    001 0 eng    a  2008008911  a9780830828852 (cloth : alk. paper)  a0830828850 (cloth : alk. paper)  a(OCoLC)ocn213384808  a(OCoLC)213384808  aDLCcDLCdBTCTAdBAKERdYDXCPdC#PdDLC00aHN31b.R36 200800a261.82221 aRamachandra, Vinoth.10aSubverting global myths :btheology and the public issues shaping our world /cVinoth Ramachandra.  aDowners Grove, Ill. :bIVP Academic,cc2008.  a296 p. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [263]-288) and indexes.0 aMyths 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. 0aReligion and social problems. 0aSocial problemsxMoral and ethical aspects.413Table of contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0813/2008008911.html