Suchergebnisse

Books reviewed in this article: Towards a Caring Society: Ideas into Action, by Pearl M. Oliner and Samuel P. Oliner Caring in an Unjust World: Negotiating Borders and Barriers in Schools, edited by Deborah Eaker‐Rich and Jane Van Galen Learning Peace: The Promise of Ecological and Cooperative Education, edited by Betty Reardon and Eva Nordland with the assistance of Peter Zuber

Feminist peace theories that find hope for peace in the ideal of the caretaking woman are grounded in patriarchal gender distinctions, fail to challenge adequately the patriarchal dualism that constitutes the self by devaluing the other, and the practice of caretaking about which they speak may be easily co-opted into the service of war. Feminist peace theory should address the devaluation of "others," in order to undermine this justification and motivation for war.

A mother's commitment to use violence if necessary to protect her children is not incompatible with pacifism, if pacifism is understood as the commitment to end war and war is understood as the use of violence as a political tool.

Many unauthorized immigrants regularly enter the United States in search of employment. A substantial number of these individuals come from impoverished countries and look to the United States as a path toward prosperity. Unfortunately, many unauthorized immigrant workers suffer exploitation from their employers and are at risk of becoming victims of worksite raids. This exploratory study examines the effects of a raid of an unauthorized immigrant worksite in Postville, Iowa. Interviews with key informants provide an inside perspective of the effects of the raid on children, adults, and the community. Participants offered suggestions on how to improve current policies that may violate immigrants' human rights. The results advance the knowledge base for social work in provision of services and advocacy for immigrant populations.

Esau my (br)other: the Esau narrative in multiple traditions /Jay Eidelman --"I consider them shit": Paul, the abject, and the religious construction of the other /Harry O. Maier --Friendship between Muslims, Christians, and Jews: a Qur'anic view /Syed Nasir Zaidi --Encountering difference and identity in South Asian religions /Anne Murphy --Religious courts on trial /Terry S. Neiman --We are all outsiders: negotiating imaginary territory in Pakistan /Patricia Gruben --Dogs as the other in St. Augustine's City of God: exploring the limits of human social relations /Midori E. Hartman --"Is this your God ... killer of children?": Israel's "childish" deity and the other(s) in Exodus: gods and kings /James Magee Jr. --Encountering the other: positive lessons from contemporary science /Marc Gopin --Vibration of the other: a kabbalistic ecumenism /Laura Duhan-Kaplan --"Unitive being" in the face of atrocity: North American contemplative Christian responses to terrorism /Pamela Pryce --Searching for the sacred other in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict /Lynn E. Mills --For the love of strangers: a theology of hospitality in colonial Canada /Anita Fast --Hindu traditions: a positive approach to the other /Acharya Shrinath Prasad Dwivedi --Indigenous people as the other: Bartolomé de las Casas in conversation with Tzvetan Todorov /Ray Aldred --The constructive iconoclasm of Lamin Sanneh /Robert S. Paul --Light from a dark horse: Karl Barth on approaching the religious other /Roger Revell --From other to brother: re-interpreting the Canadian Christians' call as we stand with the Syrian Muslim refugee /Alisha Fung --Christianity without enemies /Jason Byassee.

The essays in this volume explore in detail many of the ways power structures our daily personal, political and intellectual lives, and evaluate the workings of power using a variety of theoretical paradigms, from Hobbesian liberalism to Foucauldian feminist postmodernism. Taken as a whole, the book aims towards an end to unjust and destructive uses of power and the flowering of an encouraging, educated empowerment for all human beings in a pluralistic world. Section I offers a progressive chain of arguments that moves from the acceptance of domination, through the rejection of domination and, finally, to a new vision of power based on equality and mutual respect. Section II explores the questions, how is the philosophical self, that is, our very understanding of who we are, implicated in the web of power and domination? Section III responds to political realism as it explores morally ideal solutions to the global problems of poverty, war and hunger. Section IV discusses ways in which our thought and practice in both public and private life are bound up in hierarchies of domination