Authors:Nelly van Doorn-Harder, Lourens Minnema,
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: currents, encounter, culture, religion, evil, coping
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2007-12-21
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 9042023376
ISBN-13: 9789042023376

The various Christian, Muslim, traditional (African), and secular (Western) ways of imagining and coping with evil collected in this volume have several things in common. The most crucial perhaps and certainly the most striking aspect is the problem of defining the nature or characteristics of evil as such. Some argue that evil has an essence that remains constant, whereas others say its interpretation depends on time and place. However much religious and secular interpretations of evil may have changed, the human search for sense and meaning never ends. Questions of whom to blame and whom to