Religion : just religion /

Religion : just religion / Just religion Anthony B. Pinn, editor. - 1 online resource (xxviii, 428 pages) : illustrations. - Macmillan interdisciplinary handbooks Gale virtual reference library .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Race -- chapter 1. What you should know about the history of race / Sylvester A. Johnson -- chapter 2. Religion and the racial status quo / Corey D. B. Walker -- chapter 3. Religion's challenge to racism / Paul Harvey -- chapter 4. Ongoing issues and concerns / Jennifer Harvey -- Gender -- chapter 5. What you should know about the history of gender / Monica R. Miller -- chapter 6. Religion and the gender status quo / Mary McClintock Fulkerson -- chapter 7. Religion's challenge to gender discrimination / Susan Abraham -- chapter 8. Ongoing issues and concerns / Michelle M. Lelwica -- Class -- chapter 9. What you should know about the history of class / Keri Day -- chapter 10. Religion and the class status quo / James W. Perkinson -- chapter 11. Religion's challenge to classism / Jason A. Springs -- chapter 12. Ongoing issues and concerns / Joerg Rieger -- Environment -- chapter 13. What you should know about the history of environmentalism / Anne Marie Dalton -- chapter 14. Religion and the human's relationship to the world / Roger S. Gottlieb -- chapter 15. Religious ethics of food and water / Christiana Z. Peppard -- chapter 16. Ongoing issues and concerns / Lois Ann Lorentzen -- Humans in the future -- chapter 17. Transhumanism and the study of religion / Clay Farris Naff -- chapter 18. Futurism and the study of religion / Laura Ammon.

This book explores four dominant issues--race, gender, class, and the environment--and addresses each in relationship to religion.

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Religion and sociology.