A bold and provocative work from the late preeminent feminist scholar, which challenges men and women alike to free themselves from attachment to gender.At the heart of Buddhism is the notion of egolessness—“forgetting the self”—as the path to awakening. In fact, attachment to views of any kind only leads to more suffering for ourselves and others. And what has a greater hold on people’s imaginations or limits them more, asks Rita Gross, than ideas about biological...

Once upon a time, on grounds of both religion and common sense, people assumed that the earth was flat and that the sun literally rose and set each day. When newly developing knowledge made those beliefs untenable, giving them up was difficult. Today the belief that only one of the world's various religions is true for all people on earth is equivalent to the belief in a flat earth. Both notions have become untenable, given contemporary knowledge about religion. Even though many people are...

Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers representing the world's major religious traditions, the book introduces new voices, challenges assumptions, raises new questions, and broadens the base of knowledge and investment in this im...

O conjunto de textos que compõe o livro Mutações: a outra margem da política responde à fragilização das democracias atuais, cujos postos passaram a ser ocupados por meio de artifícios tecnológicos como robôs digitais e redes sociais, permitindo que lideranças autoritárias imponham agendas ultraliberais que tem solapado leis e instituições fundamentais no equilíbrio entre as classes sociais. Os ensaios que compõem esta obra têm em comum a defesa da democracia, mas antes disso procuram devo...

Vivre avec une maladie chronique (diabète, asthme, bronchite chronique, hypertension artérielle, …) nécessite pour le patient un ensemble d'aménagements qui relèvent de la connaissance de la maladie, de son traitement, de ses capacités d'auto-observation, d'auto-surveillance et d'auto-adaptation. Face à l'augmentation du nombre de patients atteints de maladies chroniques, une révision du système de soins, de la pratique médicale et de la prise en charge globale du malade s'impose. Dans ce ...

Mutações coloca em discussão as transformações tecnocientíficas, as novas propostas de vida que a tecnologia vem apresentando e a derrocada de sólidos paradigmas morais, éticos e políticos. O livro procura discutir o conceito de mutação na filosofia, na antropologia, na biologia, na física, nas artes e na política, e seus ensaios refletem sobre a velocidade das mutações hoje, registrando um momento de incerteza e deslocamentos em que ainda não é possível reconhecer se vivemos a continuidad...