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1: Introduction -- 2: Violence and The Cross: The Affinity Between Theories of Atonement and Christian Attitudes Towards War and Peace -- 3: Facing Down Fear: John Chrysostom's Answer to Violence -- 4: The Parable of the Wedding Protest: Matthew 22:1-14 and Nonviolent Resistance -- 5: Refuting the Violent Image of God in the Book of Joshua 6-12 -- 6: The Conflict of War: Unresolved Challenges and Sentiments in Jewish Sources -- 7: Remodeling the Paradigm of Religious Inference and Decision Making in Islam: Converting Dogmatism into a Positive and Vibrant Human Activity -- 8: Violence or its De-Legitimization? Conflicting Views from the Hindu World -- 9: Speak Dhamma but Carry a Big Stick: Violence in Early Buddhist Discourse -- 10: War and Religious Discourse in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict -- 11: The Quest for Radical Islamism and the War on Terror in Indonesia -- 12: The Violent Wahhabism and the Use of Islamic Texts to Justify Armed Violence Against Muslims and Non-Muslims -- 13: Embracing Nonviolence: Pope Francis and Catholic Teaching on War -- 14 Covert Violence: Counting Cultural Trauma at the Intersection of ATR, Islam and Neoliberalism in Africa -- 15: The Myth of Islam as Inherently Violent -- 16: "Heads Will Roll:" Decapitations in Mughal Painting – Persecution or Punishment? -- 17: Islamophobia and the Far-Right in Modern Germany, 2008-2018: An Introduction -- Concluding Remarks.

This collection of essays challenges the traditional patriarchal approach to sacred literature by highlighting gender parity in sacred texts and envisioning the rise of the matriarchy in the future. The authors redefine Biblical Greek words like malakoi and arsenokoitai used in condemnation of homosexuality, and Qur'anic words like darajah and qawwamun, used for establishing patriarchy. One author reexamines the role of the Nepalese Teej festival of fasting and worship of the god Shiva in promoting male hegemony in Hinduism. Other papers examine passages like Proverbs 31:1-31, the stories of Sarah and Rahab in the Bible, the role of Mary in the Qur'an, and the Dharmic conversion in chapter 27 of the Lotus Sutra. This book makes it clear that sacred literature is subject to human understanding as it evolves through space and time. Today, as more women are educated and actively engaged in political, economic, and social life, religions are challenged to redefine gender roles and norms.

"This book gathers scholars from the three major monotheistic religions to discuss the issue of poverty and wealth from the varied perspectives of each tradition. It provides a cadre of values inherent to the sacred texts of Jews, Christians, and Muslims and illustrates how these values may be used to deal with current economic inequalities"--

Multinational and local food manufacturing is one of the fastest-growing industries around the global food markets. The current study aimed to explore the improvement framework of both multinational and national food manufacturing companies of Pakistan. This present qualitative study employed a phenomenological research design to explore the phenomena in-depth. The interview protocol was developed to collect the data. A convenient sampling technique was used to draw a sample of the study where three respondents were selected from multinational and three from local manufacturers. Data were qualitatively analyzed to identify significant themes. The key finding of the study was that the multinational companies engaged in food manufacturing and catering services in Pakistan are having a comparatively better management system. The current study also revealed that local organizations still need an update in their system as their efforts are not up to the mark. The study further recommends that there is a dire need to update customer response management system at national level organizations.

The study examines the relationship among organizational culture, employee performance, employee satisfaction and turnover in the telecommunication sector of Pakistan. Empirical studies are needed to understand the phenomena, so that the organizations would be able to handle the barriers in management objectives. It was a field study so survey was formed and conducted; data was gathered through distributed questionnaires from 260 employees of public & private, national and multinationals organizations from the cities of Rawalpindi-Islamabad. All the employees willingly participated in the survey though their confidentiality was in tacked. Interestingly the results of this specific investigation make this study unique and important as it indicated that organizational culture types Community, Innovative, Competitive and Bureaucratic on employee performance, satisfaction and turnover have different impacts. The study relies on cross-sectional data obtained once from employees of multiple multinationals and national organizations. The employees were from all three types of organizations i.e. service providers, contractors and sub-contractors. Regression tests were applied to analyze the data. . It leads to conclusion that employees are performing well, even being unsatisfied and want to remain with their current jobs. This study provides the knowledge that the results of the measures of same constructs cannot be same across different cultures and countries. With this study government and managers should realize the alarming situation in their organizations regarding employees' behaviors in sometimes unfeasible organizational cultures. The future studies should examine the political and economic constructs and their influence on organizational culture and employees. The present study wishes to contribute in the knowledge gap regarding how organizational culture is impacting employees' performance, satisfaction and turnover in telecommunication sector of Pakistan It also raises the importance for exploring and developing the theories on the basis of economic and political aspects rather perceiving single theory equally across different cultures.

Preface --Introduction --Part I. Our human contexts within nature.1.Ecologies of diversity: beyond religious and human exceptionalism /Katherine Keller --2.Measured ecological humanism of the Qur'an and international development: a comparative look /M. Ashraf Adeel --3.Modernity, secularism, and the exclusion of nature: why religion matters /Hassam S. Timani --4.Animal talk: what ethical lessons do animals teach on Aggadic Midrash about the environment? /Daniel Maoz --5.A vast net of interconnected diamonds: Buddhist view of nature /Tatjana Myoko V. Prittwitz --6.Dietrich Bonhoeffer as an ecological theologian /jamison Stallman --7.Pope Francis' encyclical and Catholic magisterial statements on ecological ethics /Nancy M. Rourke --Part II. Imperatives from sacred texts and traditions.8.Who will inherit God's world? the righteous of Sura 21 and Psalm 37 /Barbara Pemberton --9.Interreligious encounter in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament: models for the anthropocene /Richard C. Salter --10.Green book: Qur'anic teachings on creation and nature /Fatih Harpci --11.The protection of nature and the environment: a case for restoring 'Dharma' in the Hindu world /Narwaraj Chaulagain --Part III. Practicing the imperatives.12.Pope Francis, care for creation, and popular movements /Marvin L. Mich --13.Three sages: conversations on ecology /Monica Weis --14.Prospects for dialogue between Russian Orthodox and Muslims on the environmental crisis /Andrii Krawchuk --15.The flowering of India: a Mughal manifesto for environmentalism /Michael D. Calabria --16.Deforestation in the Congo Basin and global climate change: an ethic of environmental responsibility based on African spirituality /Leocadie Lushombo --g17.'That we may sow beauty': reading Jewish, Christian, and Muslim classics for interreligious dialogue about the environmental crisis /Elizabeth Adams-Eilers.

2.5 Carbon containing compounds2.6 Residential (indoor) air pollution sources; 2.7 Effects of air pollution; 2.8 Effects on plants; 2.9 Types of plants in Lahore; 2.10 Sensitivity of the plants to air pollution; 2.11 Residence time of air pollutants; Chapter 3:Methods; 3.1 The air pollution monitoring unit; 3.2 Objectives and scope of the kit fabrication program; 3.3 The air pollution monitoring unit; 3.4 Procedure for air pollution analysis:; 3.5 Precautions; 3.6 Troubleshooting; 3.7 Visual comparators; Chapter 4:Air pollution sampling and analysis; 4.1 Importance of monitoring air pollution.

Agriculture sector holds great value for Pakistan. Climate change is a major determinant of agricultural productivity all over the world. This sector is the most vulnerable sector to weather change. The productivity of this sector is being affected by several factors of climate change like temperature and rainfall patterns. The core objective of the study is to determine the impact of climate change on agricultural production (wheat, rice, and sugarcane) in Pakistan. Time series data from 1985–2018 is taken from the Pakistan Economic Survey, Metrology department of Pakistan, and the World Bank for the current analysis. Autoregressive Distributed Lag model is used to analyze the impact of climate change on agricultural production in Pakistan. The results show that climate change has an influential impact on agricultural production in Pakistan. The increase in mean temperature reduces agricultural production while the rain positively affects agricultural production. It is suggested that the government should give subsidies on agrarian tools, seeds, and fertilizers.